Sherbrooke daily record, 26 septembre 1916, mardi 26 septembre 1916

[" Stierbreolre Daily Record.Established 1897 SHERBROOKE.QUE., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1916 ONE CENT ALLIES HAVE TAKEN COMBLES Important Victory Achieved on the Somme.Climax to Fierce Battle Yesterday and to Several Weeks\u2019 Bloody Fighting.Allied Offensive Continues Today And All Counter Attacks of the Enemy are Repulsed.Opens Way to Still Greater Successes.Revolution Spreads in Greece, With Venezelos at the Head.EYE WITNESS TELLS OF BIG HGHT YESTERDAY VENIZELOS WILL ISSUE MANIFESTO Will Direct the Formation of Separate Government in Greece.FIGHTING IN THE BALKANS AUTOÎSTSUP IN COURT (Special, Canadian A.sociated Pré.)\tHow British and French Made London, Sept.26.\u2014The British have entered Combles, Spectacular Advance and Gained More Territory.HUNS DRIVEN FROM COVER AND NO LONGER PROTECTED BY CAREFULLY PREPARED TRENCH FORTIFICATIONS.(Special, Canadian Associated Press) British front in France, Sept.25, via London, Sept.26.\u2014This has been another great day for the Anglo-French forces on the Somme.As a spectacle for the observer it was the most splendid of ail attacks made by the allied forces since the commencement of the great oifensive.What either army was trying to do and how they were doing it; the positions they held and sought to conquer in the team-play of the blue French legions and the khaki clad brigades of Britain, were comprehensible to the eye in the glorious autumn sunlight for a sweep of ten miles.The scene had the intoxication of war\u2019s grandeur\u2014if war can be said to have any grandeur.Tonight the British have taken half of Moreval, all of Lesboeuf and have advanced their line on a front of 8,000 yards, for an average depth of 1,000 yards.The French have stormed Ran- ONE LAST CHANCE WIBlfL BE GIVEN TO KING CONSTANTINE TO ACT IN PUBLIC INTEREST.(Special, Canadian Associated Press) London, Sept.26.\u2014According Athens despatches received here, Venizelos will issue a manifesto to Violent Bulgarian Counter Attacks Are Repulsed.FRENCH AND RUSSIANS TAKE PRISONERS WEST OF FLORIN A.(Special, Canadian Associated Press) Paris, Sept.on the Somme front, the war office announced today, and are overcoming the resiistance of the Germans.Combles, a town of some 3,000 population before the war, had been rendered of small strategical importance to the allies by their long continued encircling movement.It has been of notable value to the Germans, however, because as long as they clung to it, the Franco-British freedom of action in pushing their movements between Bapaume and Peronne on either side of it was hampered.Turned into a strongly fortified position by German defensive ingenuity in this they persistently held fast like a rock in the course of a turbulent stream that has had to be blasted loose before the channel was fully opened up.This process has only been accomplished by long-continued, severe and costly effort on the part of the allies.Driving in from the south, the French successfully swept by Hard-encourt, Maurpas, Le Forest and finally reached Fregicourt, a mile to the east of Combles.More slowly but none the less surely, the British have pushed their advance on the north of the German salient.Their struggles to reach and hold Ginchy and Guillemonte, were expensive in time and men, but finally the ground north of Combles and some distance to the east was occupied, putting the town in a pocket of which the opening was constantly being narrowed by the drives of the allied entente army.Yesterday came the combined effort of the French and court and have pushed their line to British to close the opening, or at least render it so narrow that I the outskirts of the little village of what could be extracted through it by the Germans would not north^of*\u201d\u2019 Combles6^Thtf German be worth while.Only two roads remained over which the stronghold of Combles is virtually Germans could withdraw their men and guns.The single- ^« \u2018correspondent went forward track railroad, running through the place had long since been yesterday over the ridge in the Dev-rendered useless.\t! I*,\u20198 aîldaG/nchhy+ ?Kion ^icn Attacking from the north Gen.Haig s forces pushed on months to gain.He walked for two to and occupied Moreval, cutting the northerly road, running ™ij88 tl!rou?!1 a.n a^ea wh,ich revit!r\u201c~ I -p T\t3\tJ\t» ted to the blasts of great guns pick- to Le I ransloy.\tI ing his way between the bursts of Striking from the south, the French pushed their line to flame from the crashing batteries and .i\t.\tr T-.\t.\t.\t.\t.moving around the rows of cannon as| the environ ot rregicourt, severing communication with one who seeds a ford in a stream.Combles over the southerly road\u2014that stretching towards 0ri the other side of the ridge he c il 'ru\tU,.\ta 4\ti i r \u2022\t,\t¦>\t, saw guns where he had never seen badly.1 he gap between Moreval and Fregicourt, a mile and them before\u2014on the promised land 26.\u2014On the western end of the Macedonian front, to the east of Fiorina, the Bulgarians last to night made violent counter-attacks.To-day\u2019s official announcement says \u2019 these assaults were checked by the French.West of Fiorina the Rus-the Greek people From Cananea Is- gjans and French made a combined land of Crete where ue probably will attack and took fifty prisoners, direct the formation of a separatist Between the Struma and the Var-govemment.Besides Adndral Con- dar there was artme.rv fighting, to-douriotis the despatches add, those gether with some skirmishing, espec-accompanying M.\\ entzeios include all iaiiy on the British fnont.No infan-the members ol his former Cabinet try actions depeloped in the sector with the exception of M.Raktavin.held by the Serbs, minister of justice.The proclama-4- tion of M.Venizelos it is said will invite King Constantine to put himself at the head of a national defense movement.An Athens despatch to the Daily: Chronicle says that the Venieelos proclamation will provide the last opportunity for King Constantine to place himself and his government in line with the wishes of the majority J 29 of the Greek people who do not want anydeclaration of the dethronement of' the monarch.The despatch says that Venizelos will call for a general mo- ships CROSSED THE EAST AND \u2022bilization throughout the island of Crete for the purpose of national de-; SOUTHEAST COASTS AND ES-fense.He will then visit Mytllene,\tGAPED Chios and Samos before proceeding to Saloniki.\tLondon, Sept.26\u2014 The Zeppelin Leonidas F/mbericos, owner of the raid of last night, the second with-National Steam Navigation Company in the last week, was made by sev-and reputed to be the richest man in oral airships between 10.30 o'clock Greece is reported to have informed and midnight.They crossed over the Admiral Condouriotis of his inten- east and northeast coasts and dropp-tion to place his whole fortune at ed bombs in the northern counties, the disposal of the national defense The official account of the raid said Seven Defendants Fined For Speeding and Other Infractions of Law.PLEA GUILTY ON ALL CHARGER.\u2014OTHER CASES PENDING.Seven autoista pleaded guilty before Judge Mulvena this morning to charges of exceeding the speed Mratt WILL INSPECT EVERTON POWER Resolution Adopted at Last Night\u2019s Council Meeting.New Market Tolls.STREET RAILWAY CO AND POWER SUPPLY.\u2014SPECIAL ELECTRIC RATES CANCELLED.Mayor Sylvestre presided at the on^ttoeTgovernmentltdghway *and oTheVi Bdlouraed Oounclt meeting last night.violations of the Motor Act.The The aldermen present were Brault, Fortier, SIX ZEPPS OVER ENGLAND Persons Were Killed Last Night\u2019s Raid.m ,\t, ,\t\u201e\t.\t.\t.Darche, Edwards, Tetreault, names of the defendants and the of- GeM8t and iroreHt, fences charged are as follows :\t| Aid.Darche submitted a recommen- f'harles Davis and J.W.McKay of dation of the Market Committee ho Hatley were each fined ?5 and costs revi8e tarif,R for farmera selling ,\t,,\t_ ,\t.\t,,\ttheir\town produce,\tin view of the far esceeduiv\tthe\tsueed.\tlimit,\tpn\tLhe\tC08t\tof malntBnancej\theatlng>\tetc., Derby Line highway.\tthe new scale to become operative Dr.0.\tJ.\tEdgar of\tNorth\tHatley\tfrom\tSaturday next.\tThe fees\tre- was fined\t$5\tand\tcosts\tfor being\tthe\tcommended and adopted are as\tfol- proprietor of a car operated with fows.only one number.\tFor space at the extremity of tables H.Victor Lusk of Oookahire and inside the buildings\u201450 cents.R.Bdwaird\tWinslow of Sherbrooke For other spaces on the tables in- were each fined $5 and costs for op- BidrieD(is in Angus and vicinity, return- Communion will be celebrated, was the guest of\tMrs.A.E.\tJack-\ted to\tMontreal on Monday\tArrivals and departures : Mr.and son ; Mr.Parry\tHumphrey of Sher-\t^ 7j'\t®anie^ Smith\tto Scotstown\tjirg p l Gilbert, and children home from a visit to relatives at Sherbrooke ; Mr.O.C.Rolfe the weekend at Mr.R.E.Willard\u2019s, Angus ; Mr.H.Embury and Miss S.Bm- H.Cunningham\u2019s ; Miss L.Roberts, of Sherbrooke, at Messrs.I.W.and C.C.Rolfe\u2019s ; Mr.and Mrs.A.Newman brooke, week-end guest of his aunt, Sunday Mrs.W.E.Lothrop ; Mrs.Jessie Mr- Ffank Dea8e the week-«nd in Smith, Mrs.H.J.Smith and Mr.and real* __ TT A_\t^ _\t4.^ Mrs.Raymond called to Stanstead to ' r- and\tArmstrong to attend the funeral of the late Mrs.LennoxvDie Sunday.\tbury, of Boston, guests, at Mr Mr.and Mrs.A.G.Hurd and two\t.\u2019M6,oa t.-Roh^r Lome Manning ; Miss Lulu Coates to .Machine, guest of.Mrs.Ernest Snow, children, The Ladies oGild will meet Sawyerville, calling on friends in town Sunday.*\tXJaLiifB\tITUiiU «111 LUCCL\tUU\t.,\t,\trv n\t___XVU1JLC D , aTAA .Ci.il U iTl 1\t.\tiv O V*Ti-lt»Ll Thursday, September 28, for tea, _ in\t«S, r ' neT ' and Miss Newman, guests at Mr.H.the Guild room for Red Cross work.MILBY.Mr.W.Henderson home from Quebec where he was present when the bridge went down : Mr.and Mrs.E.A.Orr to East Angus.Thanksgiving service will be held In the Church Wednesday evening.Rev.Mr.MacDonald will be the preacher.Red Cross at Mrs.Burton\u2019s, Wednesday afternoon as usual.the guest of Mrs.Samuel Cooper.Mr.and Mrs.A.Blais, Miss E.Du-cette and Mr.A.Deblois to Berlin, N.H.Downes, Bury ; Mr.R.R.Gilbert in Sherbrooke ; Miss Pearl Gilbert in Angus Saturday ; Mrs.(Dr.) McKen- , ,\t-,\t____ zie and Misa Mary to Wellfieet.Mass., J°u.t0.this new -footwear.We are more than willing to let the shoes be h own advocate foi your favor.Prices Ï3.00 to J7.00 a pair.IVf.J.CHOQUETTE, *5 Wellington Btreet.Opposite His Majesty\u2019s Theatre, Sherbrooke.AH Makes of Storage Batteries Charged and Repaired.\u2019 Electrical Repair W.J.WIGGETT.All work guaranteed & Supply Co.71 Wellington Street.\u2022 bust portraits in oils of Mrs.B.C.Howard and Mr.N.N.Walley.The paintings from Mr.Taggart\u2019s \u2022 brush executed during his stay here in the early part of the year w.J.Cendron J Jeweler i J ^ cllington St.£ separates ashes from coal, throws \u2022K-i-H-îi the coal into the pail\u2014drops the T t Every householder is getting ore.:j; Turning the Crank effectually to attend supper at the bazaar this evening at 7 o\u2019clock.Members please take note.Shoes and Furs from reliable makers\u2014the best for the price.Call and examine.No one urged to buy.Chamberlain's Shoe Store.his stay in the city.The sergeant major instructors qualified permanent force men FUI^S! When you are in need of a Fur Coat or Set, call and see us.We are manufacturers, and therefore can cater to your various wants satisfactorily.We also make a specialty of remodelling and repairing furs, such as altering styles of coats, remaking muffs and stoles, also relining, etc.We dye furs and guarantee our work, and at very moderate prices.We invite your inspection of our new Furs, and at the same time you cpn see some of our remodelled work.It is advisable to have your furs attended to now, before the rush season begins.Out-of-town customers can send their work in by express, with remarks as to what is to be done, and we guarantee that the price and work will be satisfactory.Express packages returned prepaid.ENGEL\u2019S FURRIERS Upstairs, McKechnie Block 140 WELLINGTON ST.,\tSHERBROOKE.in 1873, and after the lamented death of her husband, fifteen years , B ago, she lived on in the same home, Mrs.John Wilson has returned !\t^11° 'vb®re her- married life had been spent home after spending a week .nth her arifflerrRr many vea-r Th^XrL1 -lth stepdaughter, Mrs.J.W.son, Mr.Robert Wilson, prospect\t\u201c\t^ ¦\t.,\t\u201e Kirkpatrick, to whom she was de- «\"«\u2022\t«ri M\u2019.J_B.Leamont and Mr», .fe.ollerri by tM.torp.,r, .\t|h^ ,Jd \u201eol L«n Stanley Bagg, of Montreal, have been ! route overseas, idrafts are frequently\tfm- the guests of Mr.and Mrs.HoUun j going over,) the best training and CO k,,.Learmont at their cottage at North ; congenial company.\t\u2022 period, During the last two months 250\t.,\t.\u2014.\u2022»«\t-rr \" m\u201d™l sas.\u2019s.\u2019ïïas's&r^s rrS'.&St £& w.T»\u2018\u201ci S.Andre.'» Presbyterian Cdurch , .\t,\t,\t\u2022\t, .\tand was warmly interestea in its Lfe.all of good physique and in coin-\torpaniJations_the Ladies- Society and £ a short but her increasing weakness \u2018.vas evident and the end was very Hatley.Mr.F.Gelinas, of 42 Aberdeen Ave., has won first prize for the past year in the contest for salesmen open to Eastern Canada, held, , .,\t.____ ._____ io two .i,.\tt », T.n i r.»-\u2014 a\t\u201e fortable circumstances.This is the .\t__ by the De Laval Dairy Supply Co.!\t,\t___i+0\trm which she will But the war being prolonged, Ger-; but recoil.many had to issue more paper money, |\t-4- On the other hand, beginning with \u2019 NEW BRITISH APPOINTMENT, insignificant, s ims C57 millions of London.Eng.\u2014The secretary of the May, the recall of gold brought but War Office makes the following an-marks fn seven months;.Also, on, nouncement W.H.Haigh, managing the 7th of December, the guaranty director of the Bradford branch of gold bad fallen to 31 per cent.\tj A.S.Henry A Co., has been ap- In France, the evolution worked in potnted by the Army Council to as-an Inverse sense.The recall of gold slst the army contracts department commenced towards the month of In connection with the purchase of i June and it was very *ff\t.On; woollen and worsted textiles.for a long time yet p.letter conclude» : \"W* beseech you their actual state, while i,or Christ\u2019s sake, to come in some end more approaches : way to the aid of this poor, miser- able people.If possible send someone who himself can see all this.If at all possible send some lasting help.\u201d The American Board workers are gathering the children into orphanag es and homes, re uniting families where possible, planning for work for the people who can get hack to their homes, sending doctors, nurses and medicines wherever they are permitted, forwarding money from American sources when the Government regulations allow.CONCERNING THE LAR.\u201d (Boston Transcript) Will the British \u201ctank,\u201d the rible juggernaut of the trenches the shell craters, which skips the gashed and gruesome earth an infuriated grasshopper and deals death and destruction on every side with its bristling armament of guns, turn out to ho the harmless, necessary \u201ccaterpillar motor\u201d of the Western prairies?The manufacturer of thc \u201ccaterpillars\u2019\u2019 at Peoria, Til., says that he made all these terrible engines of destruction, these mechanical Molochs of the battlefield, and so it may turn out.Those who have been in the We,st in recent years know well these rude and laborious contraptions, which will draw ploughs through turf, pull stumps, and even tear down living trees.But with us, these monsters, like Caliban under the rod of Prospcro, are the servants nf peace, the ministers of improvement\u2014so much so that, when Peoria was seen to he making them by the thousand, no one suspected them of any warlike intention.Let us hope that this story is true, because it serves to show us how much better America is than Europe.With us, the \u201ccaterpillar\" prepares the fields for peaceful cultivation, whereas\tin Europe\tit\tstrews\tthc graund\twith\tdead.\tEmployed\tby America, it helps each rood of ground to maintain its honest farmer man, its gentle mother, or its laughing child; employed by Europe, an equal space of ground Is made by it the hideous\thurlai\tplace\tof\thundreds\tof maimed\thuman\tbodies.\tAlas that Yankee mechanical ingenuity, expending Its efforts on the arts of industry and peace, should he perverted to so murderous a purpose I It Is as if a sewing machine were turned into a disseminator of poison-gas.It.may be that the British military authorities, when they arc ready to tell the full story of these motors of Paris, France-\u2014A recent article in I the Journal draws attention to the fact that Gen.Russky has again tak-¦ i n up the command of thc Russian ! armies in the northern section of the ; front.His reappearance, it remarks - is significant as showing the importance that operations on that part of ; the field are likely to assume in the j near future.His brilliant campaign, I which saw the fall of Lemberg and j of the fortifications on the San is not | likely to be forgotten, nor the splendid qualitios that he displayed when victory was followed by the dark days of.the retreat before the great German advance.Now after a period of retirement, he has returned, this time to lead the offensive against the i enemy.It would be unwise, says the Journal, to draw hasty conclnsibns as to great developments taking place,.Much depends upon events in Gi^-licia, but the reappearance of Russky in the north just at the moment when Hindenburg has been called to the south emphasis the fact that the initiative has passed over to the side the Allies.LEST WE FORGET.(St.Thomas Daily Time».) Both the Dominion and Ontario j Governments should continue to ' press for the refining and final preparation for the market here of all ! nickel mines in this Province ; not ! merely that acquired for the British und Canadian markets, but all nickel whatever its destination.Doubtless this cannot be arranged in a day ; ! It will take time for huge refining ! plants do not grow up In a night.! The desired change may not he fully , effected until the war\u2019s close, for the war may be over sooner that the erection and perfecting of a refining plant with all its departments can j he accomplished.But during the war steps can be taken and policies ma-lured to effect that result at the earliest.possible period.destruction, may give a different s count of them.It may be that on jthc idea of the redoubtable stum puller was borrowed by the Britii makers, and that they have produc a quite different thing as a whol VVc do not gather the Impressio ,frnm the account of their operatic that these British engines run < rails, as the \u201ccaterpillar\u201d does, if 'is true that the British have made new thing, so much the better.Oi skirts are cleared of just so mu blood.It, is apparent that the e gines, whatever their origin, are fc j mldable affairs.It.is possible 1 imagine the consternation they pr ducc when they advance stralg I across the trenches, flinging fire a death in all directions.They ent the war at.exactly the right stai when the German psychology seci Jon the point of breaking down, n | when even a slight increase in Alii |efficiency may turn the scale.i eyes on the \u201ccaterpillar\u201d' B7-D - ¦ 3HLKBKUÜKE DAILY RECORD, TUESDAY, SLRILMBLR 26, I9T6 \u201cDaily Record\u201d Want Advertisements\t\u201cÂm'Èsri TELEGRAPHIC\t BIG RESULTS FOR LITTLE MONEY.\t; WATCHES\t RATES: IS word» or les», 18c each Insertion; one cent for each additional word.Six in serti one for the price of five.If charged, weekly rate does not apply.10c added If accounts have to be sent more than once\t\tÎ BRITISH TOOK \t\t \tt\tOur stock of Ladies\u2019 Solid\t HELP WANTKD\u2014MALE.HELP WANTOD\u2014FEMAtrE.rb',XPl!jRIi!:NCED COOK.GENERAL., ^ J wanted.Family of four.Second1nee a large numbar of eltillcd men niaid kept, Mrs.F.G.Baker, 24 Que-; and Incite aPPllcationa from foremen, ^m achine shop men ~ wk can 1 ' f UR« a 1 nr 17R\t.-.f nkllltfKt bee street.riAABLE GIRLS WANTED.GOOD wages.Apply New Sherbrooke House.QIÜALIFIED MECHANICAL _____________ draughtsman wanted.Write, stat- medlately.Referonce.s required.An- lus 6Xl)®ricEC« and «alary eipected to ply Sherbraoko Hospital.\tI*01 Iy Record.^J\u2019lWO HOUSEMAIDS WANTED IM- tool makers, machine tool men and fitters.aleo men for shell inspectors.Apply Canadian Ingersoll-Kand Co,, Limited.IfilRL WANTED FOR GENERAL UELL BOY WANTEr)- APPLY CHA-A-I housework in Lennorville.Family ^ teau Prontenao- Of two.Address Dos 82 Record.\t1- -\\'| h:N W ANTED\u2014WE REQUIRE A 'A GOOD PLAIN COOK AT ONCE T ^ nuniber of men for special work m Apply Sweetsburg inn.Sweetsburg j our sheU dept,\u2019 Applicants must be cap-»\u2014__________________________________^ , able and intelligent.No previous exper- a'(ABLE GIRL WANTED.Ai'I'LY at \u2018^A'e t necessary.The Jenckes Machine once.Montreal House.H.J.m.y- C0,1 Llmlt