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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 18, 1915
Page
7
Britain reports successful measures against submarines with new methods advancing naval warfare. Devices include submarine detecting sound nets mines and aeroplanes locating subs mid ocean depths and guiding destroyers to destroy or capture them.
An extensive program for the Western Canada irrigation convention at Bassano Alberta November 22 to 26 features top officials and experts. Attendees include J D Bonsell United States Reclamation Service James Speakman United Farmers of Alberta and W H Pairfield Dominion Experimental Farm plus many other leaders from Alberta British Columbia and Saskatchewan. The Hon A L Sifton premier of Liberia will open the convention with Duncan Marshall chairing the opening proceedings.
The board of trade in Saskatoon has sustained a multi year effort to attract small farmers to fruit raising. This season shows impressive results with hardy fruits and notable yields of plums apples cherries and even Concord grapes grown in the open air.
Allied nations inquire about clothing blankets and equipment from Canada. Canadian mills prioritize home orders through December 1 before servicing foreign contracts. Textile Association arranged 100000 blankets for Britain valued around 300000 dollars, with Russia and Italy also reported to place multi‑million dollar orders via Toronto Globe sources.
The Alberta department of Municipal affairs reports dramatic expansion. Cities rise from 2 to 6, towns from 15 to 48, villages from 30 to 102, and rural municipalities from none to 84, illustrating rapid provincial development.
A Swedish inventor’s air torpedo and Germany’s electric powered aerial torpedo discussed as potential bases for a new air weapon. The devices differ in design from shell like craft to airship like torpedo, use wireless control, carry high explosive, and may be deployed from Zeppelins or warships to threaten London and the British fleet.
Mr Hawker has broken a record by flying to 20 000 feet while comparing to natural avian limits. English birds rarely exceed 300 feet, and even migratory birds stay near 1000 feet. Wild geese reach 2000 feet, but the condor of the Andes can climb to 27000 feet, a height no aviator has yet surpassed.
Homestead entries for the first seven months reach 10,279, down 5,843 from the prior year. Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia report declines of 2,954, 3,002, and 145 respectively, while Manitoba shows 2,350 entries this year versus 2,092 last year. In July, 22 Germans and 164 Austro Hungarians filed entries.
A quip notes that if a thing a woman never needs arises, she will likely put it away with care, suggesting tidy habits and foresight in household management.
The writer describes British warships sunk by Germany yet rebuilt and ready for action. He notes a formidable fleet, the navy defending coasts and Belgium’s independence, and observes German submarines’ destruction and limitations. The piece praises Allied maritime resolve under Admiral Jellicoe and Lord Kitchener.
A New York man uses a vacuum cleaner with a phonograph horn attached to the hose to trap flies and mosquitoes. Turning the motor on, the horn draws insects into the tube where they are captured inside the cleaner.
Bryce M. Stewart replaces Robert H. Coats as statistician of the labor department. Stewart, a Brockville native, has served in the department and is a graduate of Queen's and Columbia Universities.
A descriptive field report portrays the British assault on Loos in the Lens region. It notes cratered mining areas, cratered trenches, and a ruined church observation post, with a fierce fight over dugouts and German defenses. Three thousand prisoners are mentioned along with captured guns and lingering civilian hardship.
The Cologne Gazette relays a German writer Dr. George Wester describing an unprecedented bombardment near Champagne and the Argonne. He notes long continued thunderous artillery, the tremor felt in hills and valleys, and a perception of air waves and volcano like eruption as French forces prepare an attack.
Charles Dillon of Topeka urged at the Farmers' National Congress in Omaha that every farm should be an efficiently organized factory operating all year. He urged farmers to sell products through cooperative factory channels and argued that farming fails as an economic institution when it cannot provide profitable work for the owner, hired man, and family year round.
Stockpiles in a cooperative distillery at Pointoise, France are being processed into a clear alcohol derived from beet roots. The substance is supplied to government explosive factories for manufacturing guncotton, indicating wartime industrial use of agricultural products.
Russian reports from Moscow describe German forces resuming brutal crimes as they advance into Russian areas. In Vilkomir near Vilna a three officer detachment and 264 Russians were killed in a farm house with prisoners bayoneted. witnesses recount horrific details as the tide turns against Germany.
In Germany the state of finances is seen as weak despite a practical emulation of economic strength. A Turkish loan of thirty million dollars in war notes, claimed to be gold backed by Reichbank and Bank of Austria-Hungary, signals a gold loan by central powers. Investors note Germans and Austrians have issued paper against gold, suggesting extensive, possibly unlimited, paper creation against gold reserves.
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