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With the British Armies in France, Jan. 28.â€"In spite of the hard weather conditions, a gallant attack was made Saturday by British troops against a strong German point on the Somme, resulting in its capture with three officers and more than 300 men. The Germans apparently did not anticipate an attack and were somewhat off guard, owing; perhaps to the heavy frost and strong blizzard sweeping over the snow-co'vered field. The Ger- mans remained snugly in their dug- outs, probably believing that the Bri- tish would do the same. ‘ BRITISH TAKE COMMANDING Outwardly there was no movement within the British lines, but in the trenches the troops were waiting for a sudden attack, which had been well prepared for and organized before- hand. Suddenly, the ordinary desul- tory fire of the British batteries was concentrated in a terrific drumfire, flinging shells of enormous destructive force upon the German trenches and defensive works. The barbed wire before the German man drumfire was not so intense as In positions was cut as though by sharp former days on the Somme front. shears. Following the curtain of fire, The British troops had taken posâ€" the English troops went briskly out session of the deep underground rooms into “No Man’s Land.” The breath of within the German position. In this the men looked like a smokecloud as way, the officers laughingly said, they they went across the field of hum- celebrated the German Emperor’s mocliy snow and shell craters filledlbirthday. LAURENTIC SUNK GFF IRISH CGAST London, Jan. 28.â€"The British auxâ€" iliary cruiser Laurentic, of 14,892 tons gross, has been sunk by a submarine or as a result of striking a mine, ac- cording to an ofiicial statement issued to-nig‘ht by the British Admiralty. Twelve officers and 109 men were sav- ed. British Auxiliary Cruiser Hit :1 Mine 01' Was Submarined. The Laurentic before entering the British naval service was in the ser- vice if the Ocean Steam Navigation Company of Liverpool. She was 550 feet long, and was launched at Bel- fast in 1908. London. Jan. 28.â€"The crew of 34 of a German submarine, which foundered off the Norwugian coast. was landed yesterday near Hammerfest, Norway, by a Norwegian motor-boat, accord- ing to the announcement of the Nor- wegian- Minister of Marine, transmit- ted by the Renter correspondent at Christiana. As the Germans were transported on a neutral boat, they will be liberated. The Admiralt'y Statement adds that the vessel went down off the Irish coast last Thursday. GERMAN U-BOAT FOUNDERS OFF THE NORWEGIAN COAST MOUNTAIN IS NAMED AFTER YPRES VICTIM. A despa’cch from Ottawa says: The Geographic Board of Canada has giv- en the name of Carthew to a moun- tain in Alberta, after Lieut. William M. Carthew, an Edmonton surveyor, en the name of C tain in Alberta, a M. Cal-thew, an ] who fell at Ypres. London, Jan. 28.â€"Russian forces after artillery preparation assumed the ofi‘ensive yesterday against the Austin-German fortified positions on both side of the Kimpolung-Jacobeni road, near the north-western fron- tier of Moldavia, and after stubborn fighting broke through the Teuton lines along a front of nearly two miles, says the official statement isâ€" sued to-day by the Russian War De- partment. Prisoners and booty were taken by the Russians, the extent of which has not yet been ascertained. "Rumanian front: Our detach- ments after artillery preparation as- sumed the offensive on both sides of the Kimpolung-Jacobenl road, and after a stubborn fight. broke through The Russian War Office report roads: RUSSIANS SMASH THRWGH More Than 350 Prisoners Taken by Gen. Haig's Troops, All the Objective Attacked Being Gained With Slight Losses, While German Casualties Were Very Heavy. Many Prisoners and Much Booty Taken From the Invaders of Roumania and Austro-German Forces Compelled to With- draw on Golden Bystritza River Front. TEUTfiN LINES iN MOLDAVIA l Trapped in Dugouts. l The Germans were trapped in their dugouts. The English boys were over and around the position before the Germans could get up to bomb them or fire upon them with machine guns. The whole garrison of the strong point surrendered almost without a fight, seemingly thinking that resist: ance was useless. The British troops suffered few casualties and sent back the' prisoners inrtriumph. POSI'HEBN 9N SOMME MANY AUSTRIAN SOLDIERS. «IROZEN TO DEATH IN TRENCHES Vienna, Jan. 28.â€"Heavy snows and intense cold have resulted in a slack- ening, and here and there a total ces- sation, of the military operations on all the war fronts where Austro- Hungarian troops are engaged, Bliz- zards prevail in East Galicia, Buko- Wina, the wooded Carpathians and Romania, the snow being several feet deep. The temperature is the lowest known in years, which is true also of the northern sectors of the Italian front and the Balkans. On all these fronts both sides ap- pear to be finding the Winter their Worst enemy. It is almost impossible to use artillery owing to the great cold, while cases of men frozen to death are plentiful. with solid ice The British troops had been cold but fresh with the heat of battle they moved forward like a machine and carried out the operations with preci« sion and self-control. ‘ Meanwhile, the German gunners had seen signals of distress and pre- sently they became aware of the fact that the strong point had been capâ€" tured. They came out of their dug- outs and began firing at the captured position, but the visibility was bad, owing to the whitish fog and the Ger- man drumfire was not so intense as in former days on the Somme front. The British troops had taken posâ€" session of the deep underground rooms within the German position. In this way, the officers laughingly said, they BRITISH PENSIONS London, Jan. 28.â€"When the new British Pensions Minister, G. N. Barnes, unfolds his new pensions scheme next month, it will be found that it will cost the country not less than £50,000,000 a year. According to Mr. Barnes’ forecast of his scheme, there will be a minimum of £1 per week to widows of soldiers and saiâ€" lors who are unable to do any wage- carning work, while adequate sums will be paid to disfigured and crippled men, irrespective of their ability to return to active civilian life. Berlin, Jan. 28.â€"â€"More than 100 Rumanians of'high rank lost their lives in a train wreck near the Ru- manian station of Tshura, according to a despatch said by the Overseas Agency to have been printed in the Russki Slovo. The locomotive of a train carrying the Rumanians to Rus- the enemy’s fortified positions on a front of three versts Prisoners and booty were taken, the extent of which is being ascertained.” sia jumped the track and the cars took fire. 100 RUMANIANS DEAD IN WRECK 0F TRAIN “On account of superior Russian pressure directed against the Teuton lines in the Meste Canesce sector on the Golden Bystritza riven front, in Rumania,” says to-day’s German of- ficial statement, “the Austro-German forces yesterday were compelled to withdraw to positions nearer the east bank of the river.” The Rumanian W said: “In the Kasino valley our troops at- tacked the enemy, and, in spite of severe cold and heavy snow, succeeded after 11 hours of desperate fighting in driving him south of the Kasino and Suchitza valleys." $250,000,000 A YEAR Office report cold A despatch‘ from Toronto says: An- other “drive” for farm hands is to be made in the United States this Spring by the officers of the Ontario Depart- ment of Colonization and Immigra~ tion. Arrangements have just been completed to send five agents into the states, three into New York State and two into Michigan. The start is being made over a month earlier than last year and the work will be continued for three months. PREPARING DRHVE FQR FARM HANDS Two Thousand Workers Will Be Secured in the United States. In that time. it is confidently ex- pected, from fifteen hundred to two thousand farm hands will be secured to meet the pressing scarcity in On- tario. The department's agents will travel all over the two States, adver- tising in local papers and using any method that suggests itself to attract tee farm Work at $35 to $40 a month for experienced men and $15 to $25 for inexperienced men. Last year about six hundred men were brought into the province as a result of a six weeks’ campaign. men. They are authorized to guaran- Although but Winter work is be- ing done on the farms now‘the de- mand for workers is so large that two hundred applications have been receiv- ed from farmers anxious to get first call on the men gathered up. Most of them=~arc prepared to sign good men on at once. 0 gr Bmmifimfi’ hundred applications have been receiv- ed from farmers anxious to get first call on the men gathered up. Most of them‘are prepared to sign good men on at once. 0 gr BRiiAifimLi" 51o SHIPS n 1916 World’s Tonnage Reduced by About Two Hundred Thousand Tons. A despatch from Washington says:~ Loss to the world's merchant shipping in 1916 through war causes exceeded the total tonnage constructed, accord- ing to estimates prepared on Friday by the Federal Bureau of Navigation. Vessels sunk are put at 1,149, of 2,- 082,683 tonnage, and those built at 2,506, of 1,899,943 tons. The net re- A. dcspatch from Paris says:â€"â€"Ac- ‘cording to late reports of the attack llannched by the Crown Prince's forces in the Verdun region recently, several German regiments participated, and at some points the two forces fought hand-to-hand.‘ Altogether the engage- ment appears to have been the mcst important offensive movement underâ€" taken 0n the Franco-Belgian front in several weeks. The movement was launched along a rather wide front, [being delivered at four points between A‘cocourt wood, on the extreme left of the French lines about Verdun, and Dead Man Hill, a distance of more than 3% miles. The Germans gained some ground, but next morning as the result of a desperate counter-at- tack most of the positions captured by the enemy on Hill 304 were recaptur- ed.' a..._._. IRISH-CANADIAN RANGERS ARE CHEERED IN DUBLIN. duction was about 200,000 tons, or one and one-half per cent. of the world’s total. The figures were gathered from many unofficial sources, but are declared to be approximately correct. Great Britain led in ship building with 510 vessels of 619,000 tons. The United States was second with 1,213 vessels of 560,000 tons. Ships built by all other countries are given as 782 in number, of 720,368 tons. German construction of 26,000 tons is admit- tedly a low estimate. 1000 German Women and Young Girls Said to Have Perished. ‘ Paris, Jan. 28.~â€"â€"The Dresden arse- nal has been blown up and 1,000 wo- men and young girls killed, according to a letter taken from a German soldier dated December 80. The letter was written from Dresden and the writer said that all the win- dows within a radius of twelve miles Were broken by the explosion. He added that the authorities were keep- ing the neWS secret, and that no rail- road tickets were being issued for Dresden except for urgent reasons. A despatch from Paris says: France is in the grip of the severest cold weather for many years. The thermometer in Paris registered 17 degrees Fahrenheit on Friday and even in southern cities like Marseilles and Bordeaux there were several de- grees of frost. The number of: deaths from cold and the sufl’erings of the Parisians have been aggravated by the coal shortage. Edouard Herriot, Minister of National Subsistence, has taken energetic charge of the situa- tion, co-operating with the city au- thorities. M. Herriot has decided to sell a large part of the reserve stock of fuel to the public and has lent military auto wagons to carry coal to the small dealers who have no convey- ances. The cold has brought packs of wolves into the department, and bears are ravaging the fields in the Loir Valley. RATION SYSTEM NEAR IN UNITED KINGDOM. London, Jan. 28.â€"-William C. Anâ€" derson, Labor M.P., speaking to-day at Leicester, said he was giving away no secret in stating that the popula- tion of the United Kingdom would at a very early date beput under a raâ€" tion system. PARIS IS IN THE GRIP 0F ARCTIC WEATHER. ARSENAL AT DRESDEN REPORTED BLOWN UP PART OF OTTOMAN SECGND LlNE SEIZED BY BRE'E‘ISH AT THE KUT VERDUN BATTLE EDHVTDTNG BRITAIN A VIOLENT ONE? IN SEX DISTRICTS A despatch from London says: The President of the Prussian Upper }House, in a speech at the opening of the session, expressed hope that the present year, “despite its disappointâ€" ing beginning, might bring peace, ac- cording to 8 Berlin despatch to Reu- ter’s by way of Amsterdam. \After commenting_ on the rejection of Ger- many’s peace proposal by the Entente, the President said: “The fateful hour of the German Empire is approaching. For the second time war has been de- clared on us and to-day we, a more serious and matured people, accustom- ed to victory, are standing behind the Emperor. Our iron will shall turn to deeds and the sharp steel of a clean sword in our hand shall hew the way to a more prosperous future." A despatch from London says: The Official Gazette announces that by a new order-in-Council the Treasury is empowered under the Defence of the Realm Act to requisition any foreign securities which may be required to strengthen Great Britain's financial position and also to require holders of such securities to make a return on them to the Treasury. The order further forbids the transâ€" fer or sale of such securities outside the United Kingdom. The order does not apply to securities owned by per- At Some Points Was in NatureECi of Hand-to-Hand Combats. Canadian Rangers, 700 men and 28 officers, arrived in Dublin Thursday afternoon and marched through the principal streets to Wellington Bar- racks. Crowds of workers watched them march along the quays. When the battalion turned into Westmore- land Street the music of the bands brought large numbers of people from shops and warehouses. The fine ap- pearance of the men created a favor- able impression. Also at College Green and Great George Street crowds collected. From here until Welling- ton Barracks were reached the men were heartily cheered. A despatch from Dublin says: The Duchess of Connaught's Own Irish- Turk Losses Were Very Heavy, Four Furious Counter-Attacks Which They Launched Being Repulsed. DIET OF PRUSSIA GREAT BRHAIN T0 REQUISHTION NECESSARY FGREEGN SECURI'E‘IES Voluntary Mobilization Scheme Having Failed. Compulsion is to be Applied to Holders. BOASTS 0F FUTURE. The sons not ordinarily residents of the a ‘ United Kingdom. ' The list of securities required by‘ the ; the order will be published within a _ few days, and at an early date all ’13“; holders will be required to make a .to’full return of their holdings. The Clal‘terms and conditions under which the 30f securities are requisitioned will be on ‘ identical with those existing in the ‘ voluntary mobilization scheme, which. is of the Tigris south-west of Kutâ€"el- Amara and a considerable length of the second line, sustaining only slight Labor’s support, expressed at the Manchester conference, has greatly gratified the Government and will pave the way for Neville Chamber- lain's fast-maturing plans for {nobi- ‘lizing all industries and cutting down the number of men working In non- essential trades to the minimum and increasing to the maximum the effi- ciency of all the vital trades. los “The Turkish forces west of the Hai River thereupon delivered four furious counter~attacks, the first and third being broken up by our artillery and machine gun fire. The second and fourth attacks gained momentary suc- cesses, but our troops, returning to the offensive, regained much of the ground from which they had been temporarily dislodged. Throughout the day the Turkish losses were ex- tremely heavy. Seventy prisoners were taken." A despatch from New York says :--â€" The Sun on Thursday morning publish- ed the following special cable from London under Wednesday’s date: The first steps toward civil mobiJ lizution indicating Great Britain’s ndamantine determination to fight to; a finish and to victory have crowded out any discussion of the attitude of the United States toward distant peace league schemes. Mr. Chamberlain’s scheme contem- plates dividing Great Britain into six districts, Wales and Scotland each constituting a division, the other cen- tres being Leeds, Manchester, Birm- ingham, and Bristol. With these points as basiS, he intends to push all the war work and food production t) the limit of the Iaborers’ capacity and maintain high speed until the war ends. The first call for volunteers under the National Service rule was made a few days ago. There is no age limit, and both men and women are accept- ed. Speakers are spreading all over the country to carry out a campaign of recruiting similar to the early days of the war, when soldiers for fighting were recruited. As fast as recruits are gathered they will be drafted into battalions according to their fitness for various kinds of work, the strongo' est women becoming members of the Land Service Corps and the weaker ones joining the munitionvmaking army, SEVEN TURKISH VESSELS DESTROYED BY RUSSIANS An ofiicial report from Petrograci says:â€"â€"“On the Black Sea one of our submarines sank four schooners near the Bosphorus. Three other schoon- ers that were encountered by the sub- marine were obliged to beach them- storm A despntch from London says: The Cologne Gazette says no fewer than 1,430 German newspapers and peri- odicals are no longer able to appear. 1J30 G securities are requisitioned identical with thoge existing voluntary mobilizatidn schei despite~the extra two shil some tax levied, apparently bring in sufficient securities, the application of compulsil ivil Marshalling of Forces to Carry On War at High Pressure. ses breaking up in the prevailing ERMAN PAPERS SUSPEND PUBLICA’I‘ION. curities, a1 *ompulsion ll! ailed the