Sherbrooke daily record, 20 octobre 1917, samedi 20 octobre 1917

[" Record.hrooke Daily Established 1897 SHERBROOKE, QUE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1917 Twenty-first Year HEAVY ARTILLERY FIGHTING ON AISNE AND VERDUN FRONTS; STRONG ENEMY PATROLS REPULSED Enemy Suffered Appreciable Losses From French and Left Prisoners.Zeppelin Brought Down in Flames at Ramber-villers, and Two Others Forced to Land.27 KILLED IN ZEPPELIN RAID ON LONDON SUGAR FOR ALL SAYS LOCAL GROCER Material Damage to Houses No Cause for Alarm, but Can- and Business Premises in Areas Attacked.(Aatociated Preiw Despatch.) PARIS, Oct.20.\u2014Heavy artillery fighting is in progress »»n the Aisne and Verdun front, says today\u2019s official communication.\u201cOn the Aisne front there -was violent artillery actions, especially in the sector Mennejean Farm,\" says the statement.\u201cStrong enemy patrols which (Associated Press Despatch) LONDON, Oct.20.\u2014The following official announcement was made: \u201cIn last night\u2019s airship raid the casualtiese in all districts were: Killed, 27 ; wounded, 63.There was some not Buy in Carloads or Sell in Bulk.CONVENTION FOR STANSTEAD TWO-THIRDS OF GERMAN HIGH SEA FLEET TOOK PART IN OPERATIONS IN RIGA GULF At Ayer 6 Cliff Next Wednes- Minister of Marine Says Superiority of German Force Corn-day.May Run Soldier pelled Russian Admiral to Retire Into Interior of Moon Press reports regarding shortage of sugar have caused considerable stir among local householders and grocers report a run on \u201csugar bulk.\u201d This run does not appear to have Candidate.Big Gathering Expected.AYER\u2019S CLIFF, Oct.20.\u2014(Special) \u2014 The win-the-war convention in J will be held here on Wednesday next material damage to houses and bust ; been checked by the later reports ness premises.SIX OR SEVEN RAIDERS.LONDON, Oct.20.\u2014The follow ,\t,\t.\t.\t,\t,\t1 ing official communication was issued attempted to approach our hues in this region were repulsed.The enemy > this morning: Hostile airships attack- left prisoners in our hands, and suffered appreciable losses.\tsd the eastern and northeastern coun- ,\t., , ,\t, .\t\u201e .\t! ties last evening.The enemy aircraft \u201cOn the nght bank of the Meuse (Verdun front), the artillery fighting 1 was spirited north of Bezonvaux and in the Caurieres Wood.\u201cThere is nothing to report from the remainder of the front.\u2019\u2019 at 2 p.m.to select a candidate for the forthcoming convention.It is expected there will be a large attendance from all parts of the county.The question of candidate is still unsettled.A number of names are being discussed.Among those most frequently heard now are Col.B.B.Morrill, who is in service in France; ZEPPELIN BROUGHT IN FLAMES.(Akaociated Press Despatch.) PARIS, Oct.20.\u2014A Zeppelin was brought down in area.The raid is still in progress.\u201d PEOPLE HURRIED TO SHELTER.There was the customary scenes in ,\t,\t,\t.n i mi\tI.,» i ; London.The people hurried to the names late last night at Kambervillers, near the Alsatian bor- ; subways and other shelters, which tier, and two others were forced to land.They belonged to a 1 were soon filled- .The omnibuses, ?\tiri\ti r-y i-\ti-i I however, kept running, squadron composed c.*- a large number or Z.eppehns which j After the warning was flew over the Vosges.that the situation is not serious and | that there is little danger of an actual shortage.One of the leading Sherbrooke grocers, speaking to the Record this morning, said he had no fear of a sugar shortage.He could not buy i Dr.W.L.Shurtleff, K.C.; Dr.E.P.-\tsugar by the car load\tlot and\the i\tBall, Mr.A.\tG.\tClough,\tand proceeded some distance inland over COuld not supply all his\tcustomers\tby ;\tothers.It is\tsaid that\tthe these counties, but did not carry out ; the bag but he could\tsupply them i\tfirst mentioned name\tmay come\tpro any very definite action.Six or seven | all by the package and\texpected\tto !\tminentlv before\tthe\tconvention,\tam raiders took part in the raid and I be able to do so right along, bombs have been dropped at various i The outlook for sugar for next 1 points, including a few in the London year was good, in his opinion, and he believed ample quantities would be available.Sound.Battleship Slava Foundered in Entrance to Sound.Enemy Reported to Have Suffered Damage.GERMAN OFFICIAL jtwo dead while prisoners of war, and one drowned.The wounded totalled O 1 A 1 h.lVlfc.IN 1 86,155, and missing and wounded 395.A certain number of modifications will eventually be made when reported deaths are proved or disproved, but (Associated Press Despatch) BERLIN, Oct 20.\u2014(Via London) ^\t^ The War Office communication issued figures are subject to a possible last evening says : \u201cOn the southern eventual variation of less then one-portion of the Flanders front and twentieth per cent.The comparison northeast of Soissons, there was'of the army\u2019s with the British navy\u2019s strong artillery activity in spite of the Tosses in the month of September s.bad weather.\tcourse, striking, 10C officers and \u201cThere is nothing new to report : 614 men, of whom 5 are prisoners of from the Eastern theatre.\u201d sounded very distant roars of guns were heard for a few minutes.The searchlights were in action, but no hostile aircraft was seen.It is evident the raiders were prevented from reaching the London district.ZEPPELINS TOOK PART.AN EAST COAST TOWN, Oct.20.\u2014Seven or more Zeppelins crossed the east coast at about 8 o\u2019clock last night, four going in one direction and | three in another.At 11.80 o\u2019clock one Zeppelin passed out on the home- j ward journey.This airship dropped six bombs at eleven o'clock and three t 11.16.The noise of» its engines ?¦+ '4f ?100 PASSENGERS KILLED BY BANDITS.(Associated Press Despatch) PETROGRAD, Oct.20\u2014The entire third and fourth squadrons of the.German lii^h sea fleet, and probably also the fifth squadron, participated in the operations in the Gulf of Riga, according to an official statement from the Russian Admiralty last night.The three squadrons comprise two thirds of the German fleet.Among the units was the battle cruiser Moltke, of 22,635 tons, and several submarines.(Associated Press Despatch) PETROGRAD, Oct.20\u2014 The Rus-man, as is being done in many other sian Ministry of Marine has issued counties.It is argued that Col.Mor-1 the following detailed statement re-rill\u2019s candidature would eliminate the garding the naval battle Wednesday old party lines in this contest and ; >n Die Gulf of Riga.\u201cTuesday night bring the election to a consideration \\ an enemy squadron of twenty ships of the direct issues involved without i penetrated the Gulf of Riga, and at party bias, and that his military car- nine o\u2019clock the next morning was eer, both before and since the war be- discovered making its way through minently before the convention, and that, if he would accept, decision might be reached to run an overseas (Associated Press Despatch) ?I-1 gan, would bring to his support large : the channels south of Moon Sound.of ; The squadron included two battle- i ships of the Koenig type- Our de-L.Shurtleff is I tachments, under Admiral Bakhiroff, numbers of citizens, irrespective \u2022t i former party affiliations LONDON, Oct.20.\u2014A despatch\tThe name of Dr.W.L ___________ -f to the Times from Odessa says +1 also receiving very general considéra-1 who hoisted his flag on the cruiser ?\tone hundred passengers were *> ! tion in connection with next week\u2019s Bayan, accompanied by the battle-4* killed or wounded on a train held convention.Dr.Shurtleff is well- : ships Grjdanin and Slava steamed ?\tup by two hundred armed brig- *t* known throughout the county, an able ; from the eastern part of Moon Is- ?\tands near Vladikava^aza in the A\u2019 debater, and many regard him as a i land to engage the enemy, preceded Caucasus.?1 strong possibility for the convention.\u2022Se\tj Dr.Ball, Mr.Clough and Mr.Fish, ?4* ?\t?*6 «h *5 «fr *> \u2022!\u2022 \u2022)\u2022 «\t-J- ! of this place,Dr.Bowen or Major Wil- | cox, of Magog, and a number of other war and the drowned 27.The killed !\t,\t, »\t.\t.\t, totalled 21 officers and 249 men.The|were heard lor twenty minutes missing numbers 56.Of the wounded i-n the army list for September 86,155, it is expected that at least 75 per cent, are not lost as effectives, ex- ARTILLERY ACTIVITY ON BRITISH FRONT cept temporarily.While there ere no ______ official German figures to show what (Associated Press Despatch) price the Geroicms paid to ut least LONDON, Oct.20.\u2014The official delay surrender of the positions taken .atement from the War Office last\u2019by the British in the five months in night follows :\tI question, the enemy less is known \u201cOn the battlefront there was the to be\u2014from British observation reusual hostile artillery activity, most!ports and the statements of prison-marked in the Zonnebeke sector and era\u2014from three to four times ae great against our back areas in the neigh-,as that of the \u201ccontemptible army.\u201d borhood of St.Julien and Steenbeke.;\t- Our artillery carried out a concern-1 LITTLE KNOWN trated bombardment of the enemy s positions.The hostile artillery also 70 LIVES LOST by torpedo boat patrols, which withdrew before the enemy.At 9.30 o\u2019clock the enemy opened fire on our torpedo boats and our de- 511 Men Examined During First Week.Over One Half Passed Into Class A.well-knpwn names are also mention- j tachment, issuing from the channel ed, and an interesting convention is i took up battle formation in a radius expected for next Wednesday, the j between the Werden and Weiland lighthouse near Moon Island.Approaching the enemy the cruiser Bayan was attacked unsuccessfully by a hostile submarine.WITHDREW BEFORE ENEMY At 10.30 o\u2019clock our detachments engaged the enemy squadron.The fh-e of the hostile dreadnoughts was directed from a distance beyond thé Wednesday, first organized on non-party lines which has been held in the county.LINING UP FOR EECTION P1 has shown more activity than usual in the neighborhood of Arleux.Elsewhere nothing of special interest occurred.\u201d BRITISH LOSSES TOTAL 441,688 OF WHAT IS DOING IN FLANDERS Field Marshal Haig\u2019s report from the Flanders front yesterday gave |little idea of what is occurring\u201d in I this important fighting area.Only U.S.TRANSPORT Ship Was Homeward Bound When Torpedoed in the War Zone.WASHINGTON, October 20.\u2014The American transport Antilles, homeward bound, was torpedoed, in the war zone on October 17, and went down with loss of about seventy lives.The ship, a former Ward liner, the activity of the German artillery ^ was under convoy by a naval patrol at certain points was mentioned.Ber- One hundred and thirty-eight men were examined at the Sherbrooke Medical bureau yesterday.This is the largest number detU with on any single day since the office was opened at the 53rd Armor lest .Saturday, and is due to the appointment of the Labor and Soldier Candidates Nominated for Ontario Seats.then turned northward and witn-i drew from the fighting.The battleship, Slava, at the last of the line, and which had been damaged severely under the water line finally sank by the head and foundered in the deep entrance of Moon Sound.The remain* der of the squadron entered thi» channel.Part of the enemy squadron began to fire on the Moon Sound and Werder batteries and silenced them.The enemy suffered some damage.After shelling the batteries the enemy entered the southern part of Kiwast roadstead.During these movements the cruiser Admiral Makaroff and some gun boats and destroyers in inner Moon Sound protected that channel and the mouth of Kassar Bay between the Islands of Dago, Oe-sel and Moon.Some of these ships remained through the night near the coast of Oesel Island and repeatedly attempted to make their way into the eastern portion of Kassar Bay.\u201d The rest of the statement is a repetition of the official statement issued today in which it was announced that two trawlers had been sunk by the Russian fire, and that two enemy torpedo boats had sunk by striking mines in the Dago Sound region Thursday.It adds, however, that a German torpedo boat escorting the main squadron, ran into a Russian mine and sank.KERENSKY GOES TO FRONT (Associated Press Despatch) PETROGRAD, Oct.20 \u2014 Premier-Gerensky, it is announced officially, has left Petrograd for the fighting frofit.WILL SEND DELEGATES TO PARIS.(Associated Press Despatch) PETROGRAD, Oct.20\u2014The Cent-ral Council of Workmen's and Sol- range of our old type vessels.At dier\u2019s delegates has defeated the Bol-noon, in view of the enemy\u2019s superior- sheviki resolution against sending ity, and the appearance of new ene- delegates to the coming allied con-my warships, Admiral Bakiehoff or- ference in Paris.The council decided dered the detachment to retire into to send two delegates to represent, the interior of Moon Sound.Our ships the peasants and soldiers.Sv (Cauadinn Press Despatch.) LONDON, ONT., Oct.20.\u2014George second borrd which began work yes- s.Gibbons, ' Liberal candidate for terday afternoon.The men were clas-! London, last night announced his ac- sified as follows: A, 80; B, 19; C, 20;, ceptance of the labor nomination, D, 3; E, 16.\tj an(j win hereafter stand as the Labor- The grand summary for the eek: Liberal candidate, endorsed by the IN FIVF MONTHS' 1 ll> r i v c.\ti rikj qjn>s statement, however, indicates - | that an extremely heavy bombard- -The Britich War ] ment is in progress in Flanders, the losses j area where the big gun fire Is inten-These sive taking In the front occupied by June,'the French, near Houtholst wood on ending last night follows: A, 289: B, 70; C, 73; D, 21; E 58.Total, 511.56lé per cent, of all the men examined up to last night have passed into Category A (men who are fit for the first line.) During the week 226 Freneh-Cana-dians and 285 English-Canadians local trades and labor council.LONDON, Oct.20.Office statement of September announces a total of 111,538.losses added to those of May, July and August make the five the British left flank, as well as the months\u2019 total British army losses (lines to the south held by the British Ml,688.Of this 20,084 were officers ; jthemselves.Recent reports have mads 112,604 men\u2014Abe price paid by the it apparent that the British airmen British for finally reversing the ma-jhave been unusually active, flying far terial and moral balance on the west- behind the German lines and handling ern front.The September total of j roughly the enemy formations that 111,538 included 517 officers and 14,- |attemntcd to penetrate behind the S79 men killed outright ; 8 and 29 re- i British front, the clear weather pre-spectively, accidentally kilted ;\t155\tj vailing facilitating these important and 4751 \u201cdied of wounds\u201d ; 44 died ; operations.when attacked.The submarine was not seen, nor was the torpedo.All naval and army officers aboard ; have presented themselves for exami-were saved, and all but three of the | nation, representing 44.22 per cent, ship\u2019s officers, but sixteen soldiers French, and 55.77 English, out- of 38 aboard were lost.\tWANT MEDICAL BOARD AT No army units were aboard the\tGRANBY vessel.Such officers and men of GRANBY\u2019, Oct.20\u2014 Mr.J.G.Full- SIR JOS.FIAVEILE BEFORE INQUIRY Head of Davies Company Said He Had Taken Little Interest in Concern for Some Time.E.I.MEN ON CASUALTY LIST the army as were aboard were being sent home on special assignments, invalided home or to be discharged for some reason or other.The list of these will not be available until it can be obtained from General Pershing in France.TRAGEDY BROUGHT HOME.This tragedy of the sea, the first in which an American ship engaged in war duty has been lost, is the first of er has been appointed to act in conjunction with Mr.J.L.Dozois on the local Tribunal for hearing appeals for exemption under the Military Service Act.The issue of Military Service forms commenced at the Granby post office on Monday.Up to Wednesday night 21 applications for these forms had been received and all claimed exemption.The majority of these were young farmers.Many are of the Great War Veterans here.X CONFIDENCE IN LAURIER.(Canadian Press Despatch.) TORONTO, ONT., Oct.20.\u2014\u201cThat this meeting puts on record its continued confidence in the leadership of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and condemns in the strongest terms the makeshift Union Government as a means of preventing the people of Canada from expressing their verdict at the polls on its stewardship.\u201d I am.Yours Last year when the British Red : wounded and sick soldiers and sailors RFTTTPMFD DIFR NOMINAT I Gross appealed for help the ; is much appreciated by my Commit.-RETURNED bOLDILR NOMINAi Kastern ToWnships responded to the tee who will be glad if you will kinder- j- p n » n x 1 appeal and the local Honorary Trea- ly express to the Citizens of tther-TORONTO \" ONT\u2019 ^ct 20 \u2014Ma- ^rer of the British Red Cross Fund breoke and Vicinity their very grate-jor R C.Cockburn, returned soldier, I forwarded the amount collected was nominated for East York last Sir George Perley m London night, as a parliamentary candidate received the following reply .by the men of \u201cA\u201d Company of the\t19 Victoria St.London S.W.Stewart Patterson, Esq., The Canadian Bank of Commerce, Sherbfeaoke Quebec.Dear Mr.Patterson Your letter of the to 1 fui thanks, and; With kind regards, very truly, (Signed) GEORGE H.PERLEY-This year the British Red Cross ia even more seriously in need of assistance and the response from all parta of the Dominion must he greater than it was last year.1st ultimo duly ; Contributions sent to E.L.Patter- reached me, and I had very much j son Esq., Hon.Treasurer British pleasure in forwarding to Sir Charles j pe(j cross Fund, Canadian Bank of Russell, Chairman of the Headrear (Commerce, Sherbrooke, will be ac-ters Collection Committee, British j knowledged in the press until Octo-Red Cross Society, the draft for ; fcer 30.£211.14.0 representing subscription-: The Committee gratefully acknow-from the citizens of Sherbrooke and ledges the following contributions ; its magnitude to bring home to the | opinion that Granby, with a popula-people of the United States the rigors | tion of six thousand, should have i of the war in which they have en- j been made a centre for medical ex-! gaged against Germany.It carries ! amination of those liable to the draft i the largest casualty list of the war j and it is hoped that the authorities I of American lives, and marks the will see their way clear to accede to (Canadian Press Despatch.) TORONTO, ONT., Oct.26 \u2014 Sir Joseph Flavelle, president of the William Davies Company, and head of the Imperial Munitions Board in Canada, anfived at the city council chambers early today for the session of the bacon probe.Sir Joseph declined to give details as to his evidence.\u201cWait sod see,\u201d he said.Today\u2019s sittings eclipsed all others in point of interest in many respects.Sir Joseph stated before the inquiry that since the war begun he had taken a gradually declining internat in the affairs of the company.-i- MERGER OF SWEDISH MATCH FACTORIES.(Associated Press Despatch) STOCKHOLM.Oct.20-The merger of all the match factories in Sweden is announced.The new trust will be the greatest match concern in the world, and has an output of five million boxes annually.WEATHER REPORT i MOSTLY FAIR AND COOL TODAY I\tAND SUNDAY f The diaturb&nrp which wm, centered i in the Upper Ottawa VaJlcjr ywtUrday J hi» moved with (limlnlrhinii encriry tn 4 the On If of St.Lawrence, and the har-4 ometer in hi«h from Ontario wietwnrd J to the Pacific.Rain is falling thi* J morning near the Bay of Fnndy, while 4 In all other parte of the Dominion the 4 weather t« fine.4 Upper St- Imwreme* and Ottawa 4 Valley.Lower St Lawrence, Galf and 4 North Shore- Moderate wind*.raoeUy If fair and cool today and on Sunday.first success of German submarine attacks on American transports.the request made by the City Council in this respect.It would be less PTE.F.WILLEY GASSED.| Quick upon the wave of sorrow at;