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eteetese,
Yes, they ase girlsl—working as coal hailers" in the Loddon Hydraulic
Power Company's -pumping station, thereby releasing men for the :fighting,
FRANCE'S HEAT JTALYOLD G ..
IS LESS BY HALF HER BATTLE LINES
Other Crops and Live Stook Are
Much Reduced Compared.
- With 1913.
A despatch from Ottawa says: The
Food Controller's office on Thursday
made public t tu'es of food Production
in France which are far below the pre-
war average. The most serious de-
" cline is in wheat, the 1917 crop being
short 53.3 per cent., of 176,000,000
b1tehels, as compared with the produc-
tion, of 1913. The potato crop is short
33.1 per cent., or 165,0.0,000 bushels;
The sugar beet crop has fallen off by
67.9 per cent., or 148,000,000 bushels.
The number of cattle has declined 16.5
per cent,, or 2,435,000 head. The num-
ber of sheep has been reduced by 36.6
per cent., or 5,535,000 head. There
has been a decline of 40.2 per cent., or
2,825,060 head, in the number of hog's.
In order to conserve its much -re-
duced supplies of wheat, France re-
quired that not more than 80 'per
cent. of wheat flour may be used in
the making of bread, •the remaining
20 per cent. consisting of rice, bar-
ley, oats, maize, beans and ground
nuts.
122 BRITISH SHIPS -
LOST. WITIROUT TRACE
A despatch from London says:—
In the House of Lords.on Friday Ad-
miral Lord- Beresford. retired, called
attention to the incensing number of
ships that are "missing without trace"
and . to the disclosure in the ,com-
municati'ons of. . Count von Luxburg;
former German. Minister to Argentine,
of Germany's plans for the sinking of
vessels, in this manner., Lord Lytton,
Civil Lord of the Admiralty, replying
to Lord • Beresford, said that in the
three years, ending with October last,
122 vessels had been lost "without
trace." The normal average in peace
times,he added, was 15 vessels yearly.
As the result of careful enquiry, Lord
Lytton added, he had no reason -to be-
lieve' that such disasters were increas-
ing.
U. S. TRANSPORTS
' HAD EXCITING TRIP
A despatch from a French Port,
says: The latest 'American trans-
ports to reach here had. an exciting
trip through the -submarine zone. The
first night in the zone'two transports
collided. One was "slightly damaged
while' the other had a small hole torn
In her bow and a few projecting guns
damaged.'' The temporary repairs
were made and the ships proceeded..
The following night a submarine
attacked the •transports. The wake of,
a torpedo, was seen off the bow of
one of the vessels, but no conning tow-
er or periscope was visible. The trans-
ports .raced ahead and succeeded in
reaching port , ca
afely, where the col-
lision damage was repaired.
GREEK
E.^u
MANY D'I'VISIONS
RAVE .rOINEO SALONICA ARMY
A despatch from Washington, D.C.,
says: Greece is rapidly preparing to
take her part in the war. A cable-
gram received here on Thursday from
Athens,'via Switzerland sa s urian
. , . Y, Y
"now divisions of Greek troops swiftly
formed have taken their places at the
front. '• The morale of the new troops
is declared to be 'excellent.
Resist Fierce Attacks Launched
by Invaders.
A despatch from Ileadquar'ters of
the Italia' Army ins
Northern Italy,�saYs:-1he fourth Itatianarm •under
General ,Robilannt is ,meeting' the'• full`
'General
S T SP$ AC IE!VE I
C I O VEI RO iT IAF` MILES.
Troops Advance Toward Objective, the Railroad.
Junction of Cai brai,,--Tixke:, 9,000 Prisoners.
A. despatch from London says: The.
great Hindenburg defence line, upon'
'which the Gertnan commander: -in -chief
had huilded his hopes of holding the
British from inroads into, the open
territory beyond, has been smashed,
and the taskapparently was an easy
one.
Attacking over a front of 32 miles,
extending from the Scarpe River east
of Arras to St"Quentin, with his Eng-
lish, Scottish, Irish and Welsh troopsGeneral Sir Julian 13yng,-who planned
and carried out the attack, has made
one of the rnost rapid and spectacular:
drives of 'the` present war, catching
the Germane completely by surprise
in elle onsladght, capturing numerous
Positions which were considered im-
pregnable,
force of the tremendous shock the
enemy has concentrate -6. between the
Piave and Brenta Rivers. In author-
itative quarters the correspondent was
told' that the enemy .forces delivering
this ,blow are ,in the':proportion of
three to two" as compared with the
Italian forces, and thio ,is practically
the relative strength on the two,wings
west of the Brenta, where General
Pecoricommands the first Italian
army, and the right wing along the
Piave, where the Duke of Aosta holds
the enemy as in a vise.
CANADIANS IN
TANKS FOR BYNG
A despatch from London says:—
The Associated Press has received the
following telegram' from France:
"Canada; will be, `intensely interested
in the, splendidly successful attack on.
the River Scarpe. The; credit of the.
victory• goes to General Byng, the
Canadians' former Commander.. With
him are some Dominion'Staff~' officers
who el'eut,.d to go with him when he
•left the Canadians. One unit was led
by a Canadian officer, who, since the
Passchendaele/battle, joined Byng's
splendid azmy. The tanks which broke.
through '' thee German defences ;•have
hundreds of adventurous young
Canadians Thiss ervice is Ua coin
mg
as popular with the Lominion troops
as'the'Fl yin Cor s.
Flying p
TEN THAUSAND TONS.
OF SUGAR RELEASED.
A despatch;,fron'New York says:
'Ten thousand tons of -sugar, which.had
been purchased•for the ;Imperial. Rusl.
sian Government before the revolution
and stored in a warehouse here, was
seu4ed ' 'by' Federal Administrator
'George M. Ralph. It will be placed
upon the Market immediately.
The sugar was bought for the Gov-
ernment of Former Emperor Nicholas
by the Marine Transportation Service
Corporation. After the overthrow of
the Russian dynasty there was no
claimant`' for tlie; sugar. The. trans=
portation corporation' attached it as
part of the personal property here of
Nicholas Rornanoff, the deposed -sove-
reign, .in a suit to recover $2.800,000
for alleged breach' of contract.
CATCH OF SEA ;FISH
SHOWS' INCREASE.
A despateh from p am 0t tatva says: A
report on the results of - sea -fishing l
operations in Canada for the six
months :from April to September, and.
also for the month of October,; has
beenissued' by the bepartment of the
Naval Service. 11t is stated that in
comparison with a similarp eriod.last'
.
year the _landings of cock: and halibut
on, the Atlantic cat have'increased
by over half a million hundredweight,
The herring catch for the six inonths
this year, however, was far below that
of last, amounting' to .: only 645,844
cwts. as compared with 946,487 ,cwts:
The quantity of 'salmon taken on the
Atlantic coast during the season of
1917 was .1,578 cwts. short of the pre-
vious season's catch,
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'THAT •5TRE.Er
To MkI�ycxi6Wr
The British manoeuvre which has, as
its objective: the encircling and cap-
ture of the important railroad junc-
tion of Cambrai, in Northern: France,
Cavalry, tants and infantry are opere
ating along a line running from west
of Gambrel to south of the town. All
of the vast area capturecl'the past two
days has been retained and consoli-
dated with the exception of Fontaine
NotreDame, a village captured this
morning, but subsequently lost as the
result of a counter-attack,
In addition to heavy leeeea in men.
killed or wounded more than 9,000
Germans had been macre, prisoner up
to midday Thursday. The • British
casualties are declared to be consid-
erably less than the number of pris-
oners taken by General Byng's men.
n9,R 4 �A oriel 9teerS, $11.6Q to 312; do., good heavy,
� �� .of the W $x10,76 to $1,1,40; butchers'' Cattle choice,
Breadstu:Fs
Toronto Nor. 27 Manitoba wheat—
No. i Northern 32.233; No. 2 do, $2.203;
No 3 clo., 32.17;; No. 4 wheat 32.103, in
stole Fort \f
7illiam including 21e, tax.
Manitoba oats—No 2 C. W., 75e; No.
3 0.W., 71/c; No. 1 extra feed, 7'2c; No,
1 feed, .6910, in stem Fort 1lrilliarn,
American corn—No 3 :yellow, ?lonliva1.
Untario oats—No..s *White, 71. to 72c,
nourinal;, No. 3 , do., 70 to '71.c, nominal,
ac or ding to freights outside •
Ontario ..wheat—New, No. 2 'Winter,
32.22; basis in store, Montreal.
;,"Peas—.No 2, 33.70 to $3.80, according
to freights outside. -
Buiey—lvJaltrn 31,32 LO 31.23. ac-
cording to freights outside.
Buckwheat --31.45 to 31.50, according
to freights outside
Rye No, '4,31.72,- according to
frejgirts outside:
-Manitoba flour --First patents, in ;jute.
bags, 311.50 2n0, do., 311,00; strong
bakers', do $10.60, Toronto. '
Ontarioflour—Winter, according to
Sample, 39.90, in bags. 'Montreal: 39.70,
Toronto; 39.70 bu,., ,seaboard, :prompt
shipmetht.
Millieed, car lots, delivered 'dontreal
fz•eights, bags incluclecl.-i'ran, per ton,
335 shorts, do., $42; middlings. clo
345 to 346; gooct reed flour, per bag,
`33 26.
Hay—No, 1, new. penton 336 to 31.7;
mixed,,:do. 313 to 315, track Toronto.
Straw --Car lots. per ton, 33.00 to 30,
0,
track, Toronto.
310.25 to 310,50 'do., good, $9,50 to
39 r5;do, medium, ti$$ r6 to 39;
common, 87.50 to 351 butohe'rs' bulls,
choice, $5.60 to 39; clo,, good bulls, $7,40
to 37.80; do,, itiedium bulls, 36.85 to.
37.10; do., rough bulls, $5 to 39; butoh-
era' oows,rehoice, 35.50, to 39; 00good,
37,90 to 38; do., medium, 30,60 to 35:75;
stockers, 37 to 35,25; ,`Coders, 39 to
39.75; canners and cutters, 35 to 36.66;
milkers, good to choice, 396 to 3160; 'dQ.,.
Coni; and med.; 375 to 385• springers;
305 to 3150; light ewes, 311.50 to 313.50;
bucks. and, culls 39 .to 310,60;' Sheep,
'
� heavy, 35.75 to:,37.50; :yearlings, 312 to
313; calves, ,good to choice, 314 to- 16;
Spring lambs, 316.25 to 316.75t hogs, 'fad
and watered, ' 318,25 do weighed ;off
cars, 318.50;' do., f,o.b.,. 317 25.
I CANADIANNS“TO CAST VOTES
AT POLLS IN UNITED STATES
A despatch from Ottawa says:—
For the first time in the history of the
,;Dominion Canadian polis will be es-
tablished in' the -United States. Many
Canadians have joined the Royal Fly-
ing Corps
ly-ing.Corps and are stationed in one of
the Southern States. For these, mili-
tary polls will be established, and the
men will (list their votein the elec-
tions as though still in Canada. Fur-
ther, once a soldier leaves Canada his.
— — female relatives are entitled to vote.
Therefore, female relatives of Caia-
dians in British or Canadian "t
Country Pociuce—Wlrolescle
Butter—Creamery, solids, per 1h:, '423
to 43c; .prints, per lb., 43 to 433e;"dais',
per ib., 86 to 3St.'
Egg's.—Freslr,„ tr,theredre gs, 47 to 48c.,
Potatoes --Wholesalers arc paying
growers and,country ,shippers 31.85. to
$1.95 forfirst-class stook, f.o.b. Toronto.
Wholesalers are selling to the retail
trade at the following prices —
Cheese—New, large,23'to r:33c; twins,
238 to 23/0; early cheese, 250 to 26c;
large twin 26 to 268e.
Butter=Fresh dairy, choice, 40 "to' 41e;
creamery prints, 45 to 46c; : solids, 44 to
46C,
Eggs -New laid, in cartons, 58 to Clic;
No, 1 storage,- 43e; select storage, 47 t0'
48e; • •
Dresserl,poultr'y' Spring chickens, 24
to 26c; 'fowl, 20 to 22c; squabs; tiler'
34 to 34.50; turkeys, `28 to •325; ducks;
Spring, 20 to:235; geese, to,
fo 20c,
Live, poultry—; urkeys, 25c;' Spring,
chickens, lb., 19c; hens 13 to 190;
ducks, Spring, 16 to 19c; geese. 12' to
14u.
}Toney—Comb-Extra fine 16 oz.,
53.60; 12' oz., 33.00; N0 2, 32,40 to
32.60. .Strained—Tins, 23's and 5'9, 19
to•191c per lb; 10s, 183 to •L9c; 60's, 18.
to 181e. ' ,-
Beans -Canadian, nominal; imported
hand-picked $,5:50 to £6.75, per bush;
Maras, per lb., 17 to 173e.
Potatoes, 00 track--Cnlarlo, bag, 39.15.
to .32.22. '•
Pso visions—=Wholesale
Smoked meats—Fiams,' medium, 80 to
31c; do., heavy-, 26 to 27e; cooked, 41 to
420; rolls, 27 •to 28c;' breakfast bacon,
38 to 42c; backs, plain, -40 to 410; bone-
less, 43 to 44a •
Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 273
to 28010; clear bellies, 263 to 27c.
Lard --Pure lard,tierces, 27 to 273c:
tubs, 273 -to- 273c; pails, 273 to 28c;
compound, heroes, 28 to' 2880; tubs, 231
to 90 c: 'pawls, 23 .to '240.
Montreal -Markets
Mon treat, Nov:. 27—Oats--1 ianadian'
Western, No. 2. S5c do., No.", 83c; ec
,tra, No. ; 1 feed, 830. Barley—Malting,
31,,33: Flour --Mtn, Spring . wheat
patents, firsts,. 31:1.60:: seconds, $1110;.
strong bakers, 31.0,90; straight rollers,
bags, 35,20 to 35.35. Rolled Oats—Bags,
90 lbs., "34,,,,1 to 34.25, Bran—$30.
Shorts -340 to 341. Middlings -348 to
350. Mouillie--3655 to $56. Hay -No. 2,
Per ton, tar lots, 312.50. Cheese—Finest
westerns, 21ic; do., finest easterns, 21}0.
Buttor—Choicest creamery, 46 to 4:53c; 7
seconds, 432 to 44c. Eggs—Lrresh, 0-3 to ,•
a A etch from Petrograd says:
•
la tan slat -5 111
the' States `sill vote as well as the sol-
diers' themselves.
KERRNSKY'STROOPS
HAVE SURRENDERED.
A despatch from Copenhagen says:
p,
"The' Bolsheviki press` agency- official -
y reports from Petrograd' that all of
Premier Kerensky's troops have sur-
rendered andahat the Bolsheviki also
have gained a complete victory at
.I oscove ' says a elespatch,to the Ber-
lingske •Tidende from Haparanda.
"The Ukranian - Government has
sent an army of 150,000 against Gen-
eral
Kaledine, head mall of the Don
Cossacks, and at the same time Gen-
headquarters
Krasnoff;a member` of Ker-
ensky's
er-
ensky's'staff has gone to Kaledine's
headquarters to open negotiations
with hila."
CANADIAN TROOPS
ARRIVE IN ENGLAND.
A. despatch from Ottawa says: It
i$ officially announced through tithe.
Chief Press Censor's Office, that , the
following ,troops have arrive:'1;5h Eng-
land: -236th Battalion, Montreal.
Drafts:—Royal Canadian Regiment
from. Halifax; 5th Royal Highlanders,
'Montreal; C.M.R. Depot Hamilton; A.
lVL, C.,:.1Vlontreal; Cyclist Platoon,
Quebec; Naval, Quebec; Artillery,
_Petawawa; Forestry, Aldershot;
Royal Flying Corps, pilots, Toronto;
details.
The flying'.hero`of the hour is Cap -
taro Laureati, who flew from -Turin to
RUSSIANS IN CAUCASUS
London. One -who has known him in-
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NEWS 13Y MAIL FROel
LAND'S SHORES. •
Happenings In the
Interest to Irish-
men.
IRE -
Ela Emerald Isle of
IRE -
District Inspector Riordon, Royal
Irish Constabulary, has been trans-
ferred from Ballymote to Kilkenny.
The maximum salaries of surveyors'
assistants in the County-: of Wexford
have been increased from -`£100 to
£120.
T. Kiane, a jarvey belonging to-
'filaremorris, was fined twenty ` shil-
lings for driving a horse, with a sore
on its breast.
The striking- farm laborers at
Blanchardstown and Malhuddert have
returned to work at, _their 'original
wages.
The first prize of'£25, .given at a
bazaar in; aid of' the New Schools,
Navan, was won by the Mercy Con-
vent Navan
,Sergeant-Major Byrne, son of the
late Patrick Byrne,, Bullring, Wexford,
has been' awarded the D,C.M.:and 'the
Military Medal.
S. Tomkins, a general dealer at 25
Hill street, Dublin, was fined £5 for
failing to label a quantity of lead
which he had for sale.
Mrs..-O'Hehir, of Claremorris, was Capture ' village Within Five
g'
sent to prison for cruelty to her chit- pi—e6 'Of Jerusalem.
dren. and the children sent to the, in-
elustrial School • A despatch from London says:.
Word of the British troops marching on: Jerusalem
1� ord has been received the death Bh P g
in action of Denis Higgins, R.D.F., were on Monday last within five: miles
and a former member of the Royal, of the city and carried gat the bayo-
Irish Constabulary. net's point a village almost in ', the
The Wexford County Council have shadow of the Mount of Olives. It was
stated that the allowance of war bonus on the top of'. this elevation that the
to road contractors in the . county will Kaiser endowed what ostensibly was
amount to £1,204., a hospital, but this '"hospital" has
turned out ,to be a fortress with guns
commanding the surrounding region.
E ABED
AIPLA E E
- IIS
E.
CODS
few 2000
A. •British Machine • I' 2,
000.,
'int ^ Series." of
Eight Flights.
A.:despatch from -London says: The
.
Admiralty announces that a success-
ful`air attack in the vicinity of ` Con-
stantinople .has. been fully accomp
ed" by a.. large British bombing ?aero-
plane, which flew from England to a
British base' in the Mediterranean in
a` series of eight flights. The stopping
g
places included Lyons. and Rome, and
the total distance covered was nearly
two thousand miles.
The machine was actually in the' air
thirty-one hours. This is believed to
be a'world's record for a cross-country
journey, and for the weight carried.
During some parts of the flight strong
winds and heavy rainstorms were ex-
perienced, and there was one stretch
of 200 miles over a mountainous coun-
try, where it: would be impossible for
any machine to land.
come -
BRITISH
NEAR
HOLY
CITY
THE
AIRMAN'S $2,50.0 PER WEEK.
Usually Receive One ` Hundred and
Twenty -Five Dollars for Trial Trip..
The Boy and the. Bull
66c•• , selected, 46 to _rc., No.1 stock,
42 to 4.3c No. 2 stock. 30 to 40c. P0- The Russian Caucasus armies have
tatoea—Pet bag, car Jots, 32.20 to 32.25• won'a marked success against the
Wtnulpeg Grain enemy'. along the River Dyal, accord-
Z\'in.nileg,. Nov. 27—Gash m, tc tis ing to information reaching the army
Oats—.No. 2 C. -w„ r5c, No. 3 t',,lti'.y ,tic;, s
extraNo. .i ;food, 720; • No, 1 i.eed; C9;e;` and the.Workmen.s and Soldier's
feed, ,66//c. `'Harley—No. s, $1.223; Delegates. The.Russians initiated an
No 4, $ 1.1 G,1 - teed and rejected, 31407.
Flax—No, 1 N.W.C., 32,95.
lnitocl States MMIarkots
erinner.po1is, INToAr. 27--Coln—.No, 0
y'eilow, $2.05 to 32.10. Cats=No. 3
white, 66 to 67e. "Flour--1"ancy.ilatents,
unchanged; in carload lots, first cleat's,
39.50, Jute; second clears, 38.7.5, :lute.
•C3rarr-333 to 333,50. •
Duluth, Nov 27—LinSeed--$3.333 to
33,353; to ari•tve,, 33.22/ to 33.349: to
arrive in ivoyember, 33.300: November,
,53 ,273 bid; December, 33.222; May,
33.18;
attackand overcame- fhe enemy, cap-
turing, 1,600 of them, of whom 134
were ofTicers. The, morale `of the
troops' is said to be excellent.
150 ,TO .2110 TANKS
USED IN BRITISH DI{I'V'F;
'ch"f'r'om Amsterdam; -er
A clespat . ' (� dam, says;
—A Berlin despatch quotes the Laical
Anzeiger as saying that •the ,British
X4Ve Stootk-1VkarizetO used from 150 to 200 tanks eon their.
Toronto, Nov, 27 --Extra choice: heavy advance.. on Canibrai.
sn ✓.as w,xludk�wwanm.•hacrow xwsau ac iu
175 MIGHTY
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71 -IAT DIG TREE AND
JU5T'A01-117
-t%Mo Niil E: s OUT
11fit" .S`ErEET
O'
Big fortunes have- been made'by the
airmen ,who test new airplanes. There
have been instances where -a single tremely delicate boy, but a very cour
2,500 ageous one.
timately' tells me'that he was an ex -
aviator has drawn n check' f
for a week's work.
It is seldom that these highly train-
ed men get less than $500 a week, for
they 'tisuallreceive $125 for every
Y
trial trip they make. They are re-
tained and paid by private firms on
government contracts, and from the
head. The party were fortunatelynature of the risks they run their re
ward is not extravagant,
Every time they go up in a new ma-
chine -even though it has a•ssed the stoodcalmlyfacingthe a -'
p.„ aviator p
severe factory tests -the expert flyers 'i bull whilst the ladies climb-
preaching
take their lives in their hands, and ed the gate, over - which they then
more than one has come to grief' ow- j
fag to some structural defect in the Ltkeeip buedll madelittleMhisariuCharsLge.aureati, ust as
machine that could riot be detected Anothersecond's delay.and "'there
until the strain of flying brought it to would have been no` Captain Laureati
Op one -occasion, when he was about
ten years old, he was walking across
a field, with a governess and two oth-
er ladies when the party'were attack-
ed by' a� bull, who carne rushing to-
wards them bellowing and tossing his
close to a gate opening on to a lane;
the gate, however, was ` locked, and
the ladies had to climb it. The future
light.
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