HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1917-3-29, Page 3fQRB MEAT ..AND POTATOES -
TWO DABS A XN BRITAIN
Hoarding of Food Will be Prevented --Compulsory Rationing to
be Introduced If Voluntary System Fails.
A despatch from London says: Tho tended, he said, to introduce a strong
h i measure to prevent the hoarding of
'food.
According to an unofficial report,
the Government intends to introduce
two meatless and two potatoless days
weekly in all restaurants and hotels,
and to forbid more than five ounces
of uncooked meat to be served for
each person.
With regard to hoarding it is said
that the police will be empowered to
search private houses, and if more
than a fortnight's supply of sugar, on
a basis of a weekly allowance of
three-quarters of a pound per capita,
is found, the persons so hoarding will
be severely punished. Traders would
also be prohibited, under penalties,
from attempting to compel purchasers
to buy other things before being sup-
plied with sugar, potatoes, and similar
commodities, as this system has led to
mischievous waste.
food question is pressing daily with
increasing 'stringency on the British
\public, mad according to authoritative
reports, x few days will see new and
drastic .steps on the part of the Food
Controller, Lord Devonport, to meet
the situation and prevent exploitation
of the public by traders.
The Controller announced in the
House of Lords on Thursday that `al-
though voluntary rations had brought
about excellent results, much more in.
this direction was required,:. otherwise
it might- be necessary to resort to
compulsory rationing, which would be
a national calamity. He was very de-
sirous of avoiding this, owing to the
tremendous machinery needed. This
machinery, however, was ready, he.
declared, if required, and a great re-
duction in bread and sugar was still
imperative, The Controller also in -
GERMl i
ANS FINANCED
A BOMB FACTORY
ACTORY
Light Thrown on Method of
Destroying Vessels . at
Sea in 1915.
A despatch from New York says: -
An allegedadmission that money for
the establishment of a bomb factory
in Hoboken; N.J., was furnished direct
from officials of the German Embassy
at Washington was read on Thursday.
, when the trials were begun hereof six
men charged with .having attempted
to create a reigi. of terror on the high
seas by destroying ; vessels sailing
:Prone American ports with cargoes for i
the Entente allies.
The defendants are Captain Charles
von Kleist, a chemist, oho is accuseds
' of having been engaged in the making
of the bombs;, Karl Schmidt, formerly
chief engineer of the : steamship
Friedrich der Grosse; Ernst Becker,
electrician; and -Frederick Karbade, ; 2
George Praedel and -Wilhelm Parades,
assistant engineers sof : the same ves-
sel.
How the police captured theal-
leged plotters after bomb explosions
in 1915, had destroyed • vessels and
cargoes worth upwards of .$4,000,000
teas recited to the jury by Detective
H. Barth, who gained the confidence
of von Kleist by representing himselfeee
4"O as an agent of Wolf von Igel, said to
have been head of the German spy.
system in this country. Von Igel' p
was an attache of the `German Em-
bassy, and returned to Germany with
Count von Beenstorff, former Ger-
man Ambassador.
The detective said he telephoned to
von Kleist, last April, and told him
that he had been informed that von
Kleist had written to Wolf von Igel.
"I told hips he could only see von
Igel through me," declared Barth. "I c
later `met hire by appointment "and he la
told hie that he and Dr. Walter T. G
Scheele, also a chemist, were partners c
in the manufacture of fire bomb's and, sa
dealt also in fertilizer'as a blind.
"Scheele von Kleist told me, had B
received $10,000 from Captain von
Papen of the German Embassy, to
finance the bomb cooking, but he was
in need �ofmore ..cash."
The head of the - alleged plotters
was said to have
been Dr. '
Scheele,
who escaped arrest by flight to Mex-
ico.
CANADIAN SOLDIERS
IN NEED IN ENGLAND.
Some Provision May be Made for
Them by Government.
A. despatch from London says: In
the Commons on Thursday Tyson Wil-
son asked the Colonial Secretary were
there twenty thousand dependents of
Canadian'soldiers,here who were anx-
ious to return to Canada and could not
get passports. Steel Maitland, Un-
der-Secretary, replied that he believed
some had been unable to return,
owing to restrictions which, under
existing maritime conditions, it was
necessary to impose on the travelling
of women and children. 'Responsibil-
ity must rest with the naval authori-
ties.
McCallum Scott -9s it known that
many dependent discharged Cana-
dian soldiers are in severe distress,
here?"
Steel Maitland -"I have no knowl-
edge of that, but will try to secure
information."
McCallum Scott said that if it was
so some provision should be made
or them here.
FRUITS AND SALMON
REGULATIONS MODIFIED
And Britain Will Purchase 600 Tons
of; Canadian Salmon Per Month.
A despatch from Ottawa says:-
Cables received on Thursday by Sir
George Foster from the British Gov-
ernment announce a modification in
the British import regulation:, in re-
gard to fresh fruits and salmon. The'
rohibition of the importation of
fruits has been relaxed so as to per-
mit the importation of fifty per cent.
of the importations of:1916. This
relaxation applies, however, only to
existing supplies, and will not be' ef-
fective after July 1st next, unless
there is a material change in the ex-
isting shipping conditions. In addi-
tion to allowing the importation of
armed salmon up to fifty per cent. of
st year's importations, the British
overnment has now agreed to pur-
lase six hundred tons of Canadian
lmon per month.
TURKS MENACED als
FROM THREE SIDES. ha
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Russians Cross the Mesopotamia wa
Border From Persia. ty
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Markets of. the World
Breadstuffs .
Toronto, Mur. 27 -Manitoba wheat -
No, 1 Northern, $2,033; No, 2, do., $2,002;;
No, 3, do., $1.949; No, 4 wheat, .21,839,
track nay ports.
Manitoba oats -No, 2 C.W„ 739e; Novi
3 C,W., 7130; extra No. 1 feed, 71.9c; No.
1 feed, 709e, all rail delivered.
,American corn -No, 2. yellow, 21.23,
track Toronto, subject to embargo.
Ontario oats -No, 2 white, 65 to 67c,,
nominal; No, $ white, 64 to 66c, nominal,
according. to freights outside.
Ontario ,wheat --No. 2 Winter, per ear
lot, $L83 to $1,85; No. 3, do., 21.81 to
$1,83, according to freights' outside.
Peas -No. 2, $2,65, according to
freights outside,
Barley --Matting, $1.21 to $1:23, ac-
cording to freights outside.
Buckwheat - $1.32, according to
freights outside.
1tyc-No. 2, $1.48 to $1.50, according
to freights outside.
Manitoba flour -First patents, in jute
bags, 29,74; second patents, in lute bags,
29.20; strong bakers', in jute bags, $8.80,
Toronto,
Ontario flour -Winter, according- to
sample, '$7.55, in bags, track Toronto,
pexrpomoptrtshipgradeent; $7.15, bulk seaboard,
m.
Millfeed-Car lots, .delivered Montreal
freights, bags inollzled-Bran, per ton,
$38; shorts, per ton, $40; good feed
dour, per bag, $2.70 to $2,80.
IIa3'-Extra No. 2, per ton, 211.50 to
212; mixed, per ton, 28.50 to $11, track
Toronto.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, $8, track
Toronto.
Country Prodnoe-Wholesale
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 30 to 40c;
creamery prints, 43 to 46e; solids, 42 to
43c,
Eggs--New-laid, !n cartons, 39 to 40c;
out of cartons, 37 •to 38c,
Live poultry -Fowl, lb', 20 an 25c;
chickens, 20 to 25o.
Dressed poultry -Chickens, 23 Ito 26c;
fowl, 20 to 22c; dunks, 22 to 25c;squabs,
per doz., $4.00 to 54.50; turkeys,. 26 . to
28c; geese, 18 to 20d, I
Cheese -New, large, 263 to 27c; twins,
27 .to 273c; triplets, 273 to 279c; old,
large, ,28c; twins, 289 to 283c.
Floney-white clover, 23-1b tins, 14 to
143e; 5-1b, tins, 183 to 140; 10-1b.,13 to
1310; 60 -ib., 123 to 13e; buekw seat, 60-
lb, tins, 9 ' to 93c. Comb' honey --'extra
fine and heavy weight, per doz., $2,?5;
select, 22.50 to $2.75; No. 2, 22.00 to
$2,25.
Potatoes -Ontario, per bag, '53.25;0,.
New Brunswick: Delawares, per bag,
23.50 to $3.75; Albertas, per bag, 28.25
to $3.50.
Beans -Imported, hand-picked, per
bush., $6.26; Canadian, hand-picked, per
bush., ,$7.36 to 27.60; Canadian primes.
$7.00 to 27.26; Limas, per 1b., '123 to 130.
Provisions-SVholsale
Smoked meats -Hams, medium, 26 to
27c;. do., heavy, 23 to 24e; ' cooked, 37 to
38c; roils, 23 to 24c; breakfast bacon,
29 to 32e; backs, plain, 31 to 32c; bone-
less, 33 to 34c. 4
Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 23 to 231c;
tubs, 23 to 233c; pails, 233 to 238c;
compound, tierces, 173 to 173c.
Cured meats -Long clear 'bacon, 20 to
203c per lb.; clear bellies, 193 to 20c.
Montreal a'rarkets future would be formidably increased
A4ontreal, Mar. 27 -Oats -Canadian
western, No. 2, 77 to 773c; do., No. 3, if 'a State with'. a democratic consti-
75 to 763c; extra No. 1. feed, 75 to, 753c.; tution were t0 arise also on her east-:
Barley-lefan, feed, $1.034 malting, 21.35. frontier. The strongest Flour -Man. Spring wheat patents, ern g guaran-
%rete, $9.80; seconds, $9.30; strong 'tees must' be found against the coali-
bakers',
$9.25; straight oilers, patents,.o choice,
tion, which, through the removal of
do, bags, -$. Thantagwich
Barrels, $2.854.10 to $7,45;to54.25do., :bagsolled, 90oats lbs„ htase divideddeep it, willonism becomehstronger,
$3.50 $3.55D to $3.60. Bran --$36 to $38
Shorts -$39 to M. Middlings -$41 to and more cohesive."
542. Mouillie-545 to $50. Hay -No. 2, . :
per ton, car sots, 213.50 to $14. Cheese SIR CHAS. ROSS APPEALS
Finest westerns, 261; do., easterns, 283e.
Butter -Choicest creamery, 43e; seconds, FOR HIS EMPLOYEES
40 to 41c. ' Eggs -Fresh,' 38 to 89e. =
Potatoes -per bag, car lots, 52.75 to
53.25. Asks. the Government to Find Them
Work.
A despatch from Ottawa says: -Sir
Charles Ross has appealed to the Gov-
ernment for theemployment of the
men thrown out of work by the closing
of the rifle factory at Quebec, many
of whose families will be in want.
The Government is communicating
with munitions factories throughout
throughout the country in an effort to
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"MOVIE" SPIES SENTENCED.
Sander and Wunnenberg Get Two
POWER OF RUSSIA
Years and $2,500 Bine.
Berlin Newspaper Regards the
Change as Increasing Hun
Perils.
A despatch from Amsterdam says:
-The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger, a copy
of which has been recieved here, says
that if the Russian revolution has re-
sulted in a decisive victory over Rus-
sian absolutism it means the disap-
pearance of an important element of
weakness in the Russo -French al-
liance and for the stability of the En-
tente, as the war aims of the demo-
cratic Western powers could not, in
the long run, be the same as the aims
of Russians absolutism.
"The great Russian revolution,"
says The Lokal Anzeiger, "will make
an end to this antagonism. If the
revolution succeeds in establishing
anything permanent, the most com-
plete agreement regarding constitu-
tional principles will exist between
the allies, and therefore during the
peace negotiations' they will be able
to come forward with a muchmore
harmonious program than '`would
States governed according to various.
antagonistic political p spies.
"The perils 'threatenutg Germany's
Winnipeg Grain
Winnipeg,: Mar. 27 -Cash prices
Wheat, No. 1 Northern, 51.863; No, 2
Northern, 51.823; No. 3 Northern, $1:783;
No. 4, 51.653; No. 5;21,471; No. 6, 1.153;
feed, 970. Oats -No. 2 C.W., 629c; No.
3 C..'4 , 601e; extra. No. 1 feed, 609e; No.
1 feed, 599e; No. 2 feed, 573c,, Barley-
No. '3 $1.06; No. 4, .$1.00; rejected, 39e;
feed, 89e. Flax -No. 1 N.W.C., 52.623;
No. 2 C.W., $2,599.
'United ,States 'Markets
Minneapolis, Mar. 27 -Wheat -May, place the skilled men. The Govern -
51.843 to 51.849; July, $1.78. Cash: No.
1 hard, $2.011 to 2.023; No. 1 Northern, ment's expropriation of the factory
$1.903 to 51.963; No. 2 Northern, $1.853 would provide for some of them, but it
to 51.963. Corn -No, 3 yellow, $1.109• to
$1.113. Oats -No, 3.'white, 683 to 59}c., will be a year before the factory
Flour unchanged. Bran, $$4.60 to 535. be adapted to the manufacture of
Duluth, Mar. 27 -Wheat -No. 1 hard, new Enfield arm.
$1.895; No, 1 Northern, $1.883; No. 2,
Northern, 51.823 to, 51.843. May, 51.845; .j.
July,' $1,78; bid. , Linseed -To arrive, DEPOSED EMPEROR
$2.883; May, $2,90; Ju1Y, $2.81.
RITAIN MUST KEEP - - DEPRIVED Or FREEDOM
Live Stook Markets
ALL GERMAN COLONIES. Toronto,,
Mar, 27 -Choice heavy steers, A despatch'ffrom' Loudon says :-
311 to 511.65; do., good, $10.40 to 10,75` Y
A despatch from Adelaide, Austra-_1 butchers' cattle, choice, $10.35 to $10.75; The Russian Government has ordered
lia, says: The Australian. Chambers 00.,_good.510.10 to 510.25; do„ medium, that the deposed Emperor and his
Commerce at a meets" hereon
$ 1.50 to 59.75; doe Com$10'to $i0.5r; consort shall be regarded as having
g 9; ,butchers' bulls, choice, 1
Thursday -
y resolved to support a de-
mand to
e -mandato exact ton for ton of all ship-
ping destroyedby the Germans con-
trary to the usages of war. It was
can
the
0., o'
d bulls. 926 been, •,.
g $ to $9.60, do., deprived :of. then ., liberty, and
meium bulls, $8 to 18.40;' do., rough that they shall . be brought to the
hulchoice,
56 ; to 56,0; butchers' solus, Tsarskoe Selo ' Reuter's Petro rad
choice, $9.50 to $10; do.,, good, $8.50 to , g
58.85;' do., medium, $7. to 57,25; Stockers, correspondent telegraphs. Tsarakoe
57.50 to 59.25;; choice' feeders, $9 to $10; Selo i5 a town
o'resolved to resist, any Proposal to. canners and cutters, ,$5.25 to $5:60; ("village of the Czar"),
pmincers, good to choice, 585 to 2110; do., 16 miles south-west of Petrograd,
nd back the German islands in the eom: and coed., each; 540 to 560; spring-,
cific onars; $50 to 5110; light ewes; 10 to 11 where the Imperial Summer residence
the., ground that such a step i 5 5
s o . osed t ` p i sheep;. heavy, 58.60 to $9:50; calves, is located. Here are the old
pP o the interests and safe goocl'to choice, 112' to 814.60; lambs; ipalace,
of the Commonwealth and New choke, 514.25 'to 516.25; do., niediu,rj, 'built by Catherine I., in 1724, and the
eland. 810.50. to. 512.60; hogs, fed and watered, Alexander palace, built by Catherine
515.50 to $15:60; do., weighed off cars, 11. in 1792,with a park -C is`,
516.75: do., f.o.b., $14.75. 1 containing an
A. despatch from London says: The
Russians, driving forward from Per- 100
sia, have crossed the Mesopotamia
border at one point, while a second
army is continuing its ; advance : from
Kermanshah in support of the British `G
advance from Bagdad. This means str
the` retreating Turks are being mei.
menaced from -three sides, and,. ac- ; 000
cording to allied military observers,''ivel
are threatened by far greater disas- in
ter than even the loss of Bagdad. day
MERCANTILE SHIPSAIo:ntreal, Mar. 27 -Choice steers, 511 arsenal and historical museum.
to 511.25; good steers, $10.50; lower .°.
ORDERED BY grades; $8.25; to $3.50; ,butchers' cows "
BRIT IN.
_. $7.20. tc"$9, bulls, 58.25 to $10; choice NOTED GERMAN AVIATOR °e-
milk -fed cTives, Si.s to 220;' good' to' KILLED IN AN AIR FI
W choice, .v12 tc $15; lower ra CHT.
A despatch from London. ways: The , . g des,:
i$5 to $1Z, sheep• Po9,25 to $10;,
overninent has arranged .for the con- lambs,13.25 ; s
i g � to ,1.1.26; 'hogs;' Selected,. A despatch: from London says: An -
action of one hundred standard ,310,21 to $1.6.0, y
_ � other o£ Germany's best military avia-
•cantile ships in three sizes of 18,-
tors,Fritz Mannschott, has- been. kill -
tons, 5 000 and 3,000 tonsMuch L•odder, especiallya '
, , respect- hay, is wast-., :
.ed in an an. fight onthe
western front,
y, according to a statement made ed by placing too before an ani- according to a Berlin despatch t -
$grans
the House of Commons on Thurs mal at a time. - A. little and often is mated b ' the Exchange Tele ra h
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1 good practice in feeding, f correspondent at The Hague
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A despatch from New York says:--
Albert 0. Sander and Charles N. Wien-
nenberg, who pleaded guilty on Wed-
nesday to a charge of having sent
spies to England from this country to
gather' information for the German
military •authorities, on Thursday
were sentenced to serve two years in
the Federal Prison at Atlanta and to
pay a fine of $2,500 each,
NO USE LAN'NCHIN
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LOANS IN GERMANY
A Hague despatch from the cor-
respondent of the Estciange, Telegraph
Company, London, says: -"The Ger-
man Ministry of Finance is organiz-
ing a great canvassing campaign for
the sixth German war loan, which, in
financial circles, is considered less
successful than the previous loan, the week has been granted to the sur -
subscriptions being one-third lower. face workers in the shines atoval.
Berlin and Frankfort bankers openly
C
p Y The Victoria League of Edinburgh
is giving a series of Sunday con-
Certs for the benefit of the soldiers.
Fines amounting to £42 were im-
posed at Kilmarnock for: contraven
FROM OLD SCOTLAND
NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER
BANKS AND BRAES.
What is Going On in the Highlands
and Lowlands of Auld
Scotia.
The Town Council of Hamilton,
have decided to take up 240,000 of
the war loan,
After forty years of service, Mise
Bruce has retired as headmistress of
Rashfield School at Dunoon.
The School Beard of Helensburgiz
have allocated plots of ground to
the pupils for growing vegetables.'
The late M. J. Lothian, of Kilravock,
has bequeathed the sum of £2,000
to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
A war bonus of two shillings per
state that the present failure shows
the uselessness of launching a seventh
loan."
SEVERAL STRIKES tion of the Lighting Restriction Or -
IN FOE FACTORIES I der,
A despatch to the ExchangeJ. S. Paterson, wounded at .Galli-
p Tele- poli, has been offered the headmas-
graph, London, from Rotterdam says: tership by the School Board of Gretna.
-"Our frontier correspondent under -1 Edinburgh, Town Council have a
stands' that five munition factories in ! g v p
Dusseldorf have be i theproved of a proposal to plough up'
ei scenes of portions of the public parks andg olf
strikes during the last forty-eight courses.
hours, in protest against the small ra- R. Thomson, Rushee has been oleo»
tions entailed by the reduction in the ed president of the West Calder
meat, bread and potato allowances in- branch of the National Farmers'
traduced last week. The workers re I Union.
The Auchinleck School Board has
decided to grant a bonus to all the
teachers and to the clerk of the school
board.
'MISSING." An entertainment was given in
fused to resume work unless the food
rations are increased.
COUSIN OF KAISER
AMONG TILE
the pavilion at Johnston by the 38th
Has Not Returned From Air Raid Volunteer .Regiment, in aid of the
Over British Lines. Red Cross Fund.
A despatch from Berlin says: The
War Office report says: "An aeroplane HOW SHIPS SINK.
directed by Prince Friedrich Karl of
Prussia has not returned from a raid Reason For the Awful Loss of Life ht
over the hostile lines between Arras Modern Shipwrecks.
and Peronne."
Nearly,,every class or design of ves-
sel sinks in a particular way. For in-
stance, the old type of single -bottom.
steamer, with few or no bulkheads
that is, in the modern sense of the
term -almost invariably founders on
ed as Canal. Work is Stopped: more or less of an even keel, which'
means that they sink level and ' not
Prince Friedrich is a cousin of the
Kaiser.
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ENGINES FOR FRANCE.
Thirteen Locomotives Not Now Need -
A despatch from St. Catharines
says: -Thirteen locomotives which
were used on the construction of the
new Welland ship canal have been
secured by the Dominion Government
for shiument to France to be used in
war purposes. They are not need-
ed here now on account of the closing.
down of the
work.
with their bow or stern up in the air.
This is accounted for by the fact
that at whatever point the water may.
enter, it practically finds its own level,
as there are no sub -divisions to ob-
struct it.
Now, in the case of a motezn vessel,
which is built with numerous sub-divi-
dons,er it invariably happens that she
f
'o stndswithh
er bo_. r
bow o
stern high
2,300 MANITOBA CHILDREN out of the water; or else she sinks
IN TRUCK GARDENING
O
ith a heavy list, or cant, to one side
r the other.. The reason for this ise.
at the bulkheads prevent the water
'Iv
enters the vessel from finding
s lever; consequently, when one par-,
cellar portion of the Thin is full of
1tet• while the remainder is practic-
ly water t t•ht., th ei; wart 'vehieh ` is
•
ater-laden sinks first, owing to its
eater n ei ht.
71 is for this reason thiit such ter -
le loss of life freouently occurs in
odern shil,wrecka. Owing to the un -
en sinl ing, it i� often found impos-
le. to loser ihe:majority cif the life-
ats, as they would fail to reach the
a ter.
.A despatch from Winnipeg says •- th
Two thousendthree hundred Manitoba
boys and girls are entering- a vege-
table
garden competition this year, ti
New Postmaster -General. all
A despatch from 'Ottawa says:- .
Non. E, L. Pateneude, Secretary of
gl
State, has been appointed to act as rib
Postmaster -General in the place of in
Hon. P. E. Biondin, who has announc- ev
ed his intention to join the'overseas sib
farces.,
bo
Trees of a special shape, used for
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umbrella handles, are raised in France,
more than 500 acres being devoted to us
thisp urpose.
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Teacher -What does geometry to
t y,acla
Pupil --Geometry teaches up
w to bisect angels.
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