The Quebec chronicle, 26 octobre 1916, jeudi 26 octobre 1916

[" + GERMANS t HOW UNITED STATES IS © PLAYING CERMANY'S CAME: ~~ ~ ESTABLISHED 1764.SRE FR TE Patronised by H.R.H.TWO SEASONABLE DELICACIES.FRESH CREAM CHEESE, in 6-05.cakes, tainers, 80c ebch.MALPECQUE OYSTERS, 700 count, 35c per dogen; 98.00 per hundred; $13.00 per barrel.A.GRENIER.Established 1882 = the Duke of Connaughtpacked in sanitary com- Fhones 247-1244 = WILLEHAD IS USED AS TELEGRAPH STATION FOR | ENEMY SUBMARINES ALTHOUGH THREE MILE LIMIT\u2014LETTERS INTERCEPTED.- London, Oct.235.\u2014The following twp \u2018letters, intercepted on their way to Germany, were made public here today.The first one from Max\u2014.461 East Eighth street, South Ros tog, addressed to his brother, said: ear Gustav:\u2014 \u201cThe Willehad sailed today.1 am to stay here till the end of the war.The Willehad will act within the Amthree mile limit as à telegrapit station for submarines.She has four months provisions aboard \u201c==> The second letter was from the captain of the Willehad, named Jachens, who wrote from New Lon: domi to his sister in Germany, saying: \u201cÎ rejoice'! am nor here as captain of the Willehad.The Koln still lies at Boston.1 am here with the Willehad on a special mission.\u201cLater you will hear more from me.I rejoice that T have done something for the fatherland and that still have more :v do.\u201d The North German Lloyd steam.shin Willehad, which took refuge in Boston sonn nfter the beginning nt the war, after escaping from Quebee just in time, was taken to New London on Aug.25 last under command of Captain.Jachens.and was tled up at the pier of the Eastern Forwarding Company, tlie American agent for the German submarine merchantmen.The Willehad was said to carey a full crew ot German sailors, some of whom were declared at the time to have recruited from other ships.The wireless on the Willehad, as well as on all other German and belligerent vessels in American pores, was dismantled and sealed by customs officers soon after the begina ing of the war, _._ The steamship Koin.aîso owned by the North German Lloyd, reached Boston from Bremen on Ang.1t.1914, after eluding British cruisers in the Atlantic.The Koln is still tied up at Boston.The Willehad at New London was taken to a prenared dock on which the Eastern Forwarding Company had erected.under rush orders, after the arrival of the submersible Deutschland at Baltimore, & corru- ted iron shed about 400 feet long $8\" feet wide, with the end of the pier enclosed by a high fence joined on to the office of the company.Cantein Hinsch.former master of the orth German Linvd Liner Neckar, s brought from Baltimore and plac \u2018ad In charge of the property.Ready for Submarines.The Willehad as she now lies \u2018s made fast to cluster piling fifty feet sway from the dock her stern hard inst the bank of the Thames river.er wireless is sealed.Between the dhip and the dock is space of about @fty feet intended for the reception of the expected Bremen or other ships of the submarine merchant feet.To shut out possible view or interruption of the loading and unloading process of the merchant submarines a floating gate thirty feet SODA WATER ; a Schweppes Famous English Table Waters DRY GINGER ALE As supplied to HM.The King ~~ | y ia the cvzeration of Ter\u201crmavoda left intazt the fourteen mile bridge, | (he troops on the Somme front in WITHIN i BANK OF MONTRE CONSPIRACY CS: NEW WESTMINSTER BRANCH | ARETRACED.\u201cTT \u2014\u2014 Toronto, Oct .25\u2014M.B.shorthait.of Chicago, was found guily today | in the County Judges Crimini! Court of having conspired with Michael\u201d Flannigan and Pateick Walsh to'o%- sain possession nf $1,025 in rare notes \u2018 stolen from the New Westminster branch of the Bunk of Moutreal aud placed in n safety deposit vault in Toronto .He will appear tomorrow | for sentence.The Westminster branch wa: re | bed about six years 2235 and over! £250,000 was secured in hills.Nince then some of fhe staien hills have been discovered in ciccuiation with the numbers altered.Patrick Walsh, a Chicago railroad man, was found guilty som= two yeas ag of bringing some of the stolen money te Can- | ads.He was released om bail, pending a stated case and when the con.victior was sustained he failed to appear for sentence, \u2014\u2014\u2014 rer high has been constructed, made fast to piling at the bow of the Willeha4, and so designed that when closed the space between the ship and the dock is completely closed in.The piling under the pier on which the shed is built, #8 weil as the piling to which the Willehad is made fast, is said to have been wired under the water to prevent, it was explained, possible damage to a merchant s\\h- marine by boats coming up to it under the docks.These wires are ele trically connected with a gong in the office of the company.The crew of the Willehad is doing all the work arcund the docks and piers of the Eastern Forwarding Company, including that of watch men.It is also said in New London that the ssiinrs will be used\u2019 to discharge and load cargo of any merchant submarines which may arrive in the future.\u2014 New London, Conn, Oct.26.\u2014 Captain Jachens of the steamer Willehad, which has been tied wp here since last August, denied late today any knowledge of the letters intercepted by the British on their way to Germany, referring to movements >f the Willehad.Captain Jachen\u2019s only answer to all \u2018questions was:\u2014\"I \u2018t know anything about ft\u201d - The Quebec | part of the wozk along the en.irz Ine of bawtie.The northern part of the .5 i.QUEBEC, THURSDAY, NS TRYING TO SEPARATE \u2014 'RUMANIANS FROM RUSSIANS ARE DRIVEN B \u2014Minor Operations Elsewhere From three points thé Teutonic allies are working with feverish haste in an sttempt to encompass Ramanis\u2014irom the north-eassern and eastern borders of Transylvania and through Dobrudjs.In the latter region and on the sant \u2018Transylvania front further progress in their inrouds jeto King Ferdinacd's territory has been made.On the north-east Tramsplvania front, hdwever, in engagements with the Russians they hive been driven | from the heights south of Dorna Watra.Keeping up his drive in Dobrudja Field Marshal Von Mackensen has brought bis line well above the Constanza-Tchernavods railway line, the right wing resting approximately on Tachaul, near the Black Sea 13 miles north of Contranza.and «be left north of Tchernavoda, whence suns the only br'dge acro:z the Danube in tis reg'on.Whether the Rumanians | wich will be of izimen:e tirategic value to the Teutonic allies in a divession 1cv.nit i c.zvc t, Las Lot been made known, out following military proe-de + dipiie the qutkness of Von Mackensen'u forward puch.it prebab y =z3 blown up or otherwise badly damaged.Futtlikr grovnd on the eastam Transylvania front on the Rumanian Fees Pu .! side ci tl:e Vu'cais and Predeal Pzzscz hes been given up to the Austro- i Gerrans by the Rumanians, but according to Bucharest the Teutons east of the r:ver Aluta, in Transylvan a, have veu:a éciv.n nbz.hiward, while in the Uzzi 2-2 Ooiuz valleys the Rurianans have made advances.o In the region of Verdun where the French Tuc:day made their spec- ! tacular drive over a wide fron.north ard north-cast of Verdun they ace | still holding the ground gained d:szite vicious counter-attachs, \u2018delivered | SOME STOLEN BILLS FROM particularly in the region of Haudromont and Douaumont, and =ast of the { pregeion under whatever circumstane es Fom'n wood and north of Chevois bave gained further ground.More | a 4800 German soidiers hive been captured by the Fitach in this re- | | gion.Kisewheré along the front where the French amd British are facing the Gerrans ia France little activity, except by the big guns, hus been Likewise in the Austro-ltalian terre 8 @ artillery is doing the greater | Carso p'ateau is undor a heavy bas.bardment.i 1 Cnly minor operations have taken place on the fronts in Rmesia snd Maccdon:a.\u2018SUCCESSFUL AERIAL RAID Paris, via London, Oct.28\u2014DBéiwcen 11 am.ard one p.m, Monday eleven British bombarding aeropizues, accompanied by five protecting aeropisnes, bombarded the blast furnaces of Hagondange, on which they ; threw 1300 kilograms of projectiles, Several fires were caused by this raid.| The aviators were able to observe that the bombardment carried out the previous night on the same place hv French aeroplanes had good resulta and that much damage apparently had been done.\u201d \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 - GERMAN WARSHIP WRECKED.Copenhagen, via London, Oct.f8\u2014Large quantities of wreckage were washed ashore up on Recshale Island, near Copenhagen Wednesday.According to the Ekstrabladet, an investigation showed that the wreckage was from a German warship.It included latge sections of the after part of the ship.NORWEGIAN STEAMERS SUNK, London, Oct.88==Lloyds reports that the Norwegian steamer Anna Gurine, from Glasgow for Nantes, has been sunk.The crew was landed at Plymouth, \u2019 A Reuter despatch from Christiania reports the sinking of the Norwegian steamers Garibaldi and Ravn (previowsly reported).This despatch says the crew of the Ravn was saved.The Norwegian bark Randi has been burned by s German submarine The dorweglan steamer Edam, which was previously reported to have besn captured, is now said to have been smak, and the crew taken to | FRENCH HOLD THEIR GAINS.' Paris, via London, Oct.26-Three successive countsr-atincks by the Germans north of Verdun in the region of Hasdroment and Donsumont, were repulsed by the French today, says the bulletin issued by the War Office tonight.\u2018Fhe prisoners taken by the Preackrnow exceed 4,000.The text reads: \u201cNorth of Verdun the enemy delivered three successive counter-at- tacks in the region of Haudromont and Dousumont.None succeeded, and our front was maintained intact \u201cRast of Fumin wood and north of Chenois we centisuod te make pre- \u201cThe nmuber of urvoundol prisoners actually counted exceeds 4,000.! _* \u201cQi ta semainder of the front there wes aothiog sé importance\u201d } a DCTOBER 26, 1976.ACK BY LATTER : Teutonic Allles Work With Feverish Haste To Fncompass Rumania From Three Sides\u2014French Repulse Vicious Counter-Attacks At Verdun\u2014 Little Activity Is Reported From Somme Front \u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014 \u2018atand ih a tenacious struggle against Chronicle.KAISER TALKS OF HIS \u201cJUST CAUSE\" COMES TO SOMME FRONT TO ENCOURAGE HIS CANNON FODDER.Berlin, Oct.23, via London.\u2014Em- peror William on his recent visit to France made the following speech, according to the correspondent of the lageblatt: \u201cComrades, following an impulse of the heart, 1 have hurried to you from the east front to bring yoo the grees ings of your comrades there and he thanks of the fatherland for the four months\u2019 hard struggles on the Somme and for the heroic manner in whicn you have fought.The world's history knows no parallel for the struggles in wkich you are participating and for the greatness of your deeds.For certuries these battles of the Somme will stand as a blazing model for the conquering will of a united people.\u201cIn you that Germany will find ex- \u201cRo prevent the ememy from prostrating us to the ground and to stand firm against French insolence British stubborancss.From all German regions you stand like a metal wall of German sense of duty and ««1f-devoted valor, fighting to the last breath.\u201cOn all sides the German people tal\u2019 the world and against the mani- fald runetioritv of numbers.Even though it continues hard and endures tong.vet the Lord of hosts is with sou Thare at home have besouehe | M ARE YOU GIVING A HALLOWEEN PARTY?WE HAVE À LARGE SUPPLY OF + Hallow E\u2019En Invitations PLACE CARDS, DECORATIONS, Etc, Ete.COME IN AND SEE, \u2014\u2014 g \u2014 JOHN E, WALSH°S Reg'd.11 ST.JOHN STREBT.HUDSON SEAL (Also named French Seal and Baltic Seal) This wonderfully durable fur, which is actually Muskrat dyed and plucked Seal-wise, stands far apart from the usual type of flat fur.for Set or Coatsoft, thick fur and splendid leather lends itself to the ceful lines and drape of this season's garments ossessing a wonderful resistance to wear.Its extremely light weight (in the type of skins we use) appeals to the well-dressed women of discriminating taste.Before deciding u your Fur Coat, slip on a Hudson Seal garment.ote the gloss of the fur, the light, soft feel of the pelt and the graceful swing and drape of the skirts.Oar designs are original and all garments are carefully mfacigred under conditions that closely approach the deal.- 1011 ASS AM ES May we suggest a visit before November's rush ?; \u20ac oO Tailed Him a~d He has inspired you wita strength and conrage.Trust in God bravely.feeling that you are fighting in n just cause.\u201cThus 1 qreet von.com=ades.Hold out.the T~+d will give His blessing to the end.\u201d The Weather Toronto, Oct.35\u2014The disturbance which was over Kansas las: night has | moved quickly north-eastward to! northern Ontario, causing a moderate gale with showers in the Lake region.| In Quebec and the Mariime Provinces and also in the west the weather has been fair.Temperatures: Min.Max Victoria co vee ees .\u2026.46 80 Vancouver .«oo cos oo.44 5 Kamloops .\u2026 \u2026.#R 48 Edmonton .\u2026.\u2026 \u2026 36 6 Calgary io oor eee .\u2026.3 50 Medieine Hat .3 60 Moose Juw \u2026 .2 47 Regina .\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.M 48 Battleford .28 48 Prince Albert .23 40 Winnipeg .oc .\u2026.20 36 Tort Arthur oo cov .\u2026.50 3H Parry Sound .+.\u2026.30 8 London .+.0.510 80 Toronto .- 0 Kingston .\u2026.\u2026\u2026.5 Ottawa .\u2026.oor \u2026.\u2026.M 88 Montreal .\u2026.36 86 00198 8 St, John ooo ov 200 2000 70 82 Matifax:.ceo ver ona 36 88 Poresatts: lower Lakes and Georsian Bay: Decreasing wettetly winds: fair and cooler.Ottaws and Upper St.Lawrence Valleles: Strong westerly winds; mostly fair snd cooler.Lower St.Lawrence: Strong winds or gales from south-west and west; logal showers, but mostly fair and turning cooler.Gulf and North Shore\u2019 winds or gales from south and south- went, with showers, Maritime Provinees: Strong winds or moderate gales from south-west and south-east, with local