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19500 PRISONERS l SURPRISE 1 TTAC
Australians Assisted by ',ranks Advanced a Mile and a Balt' ,on,
4•,111i1e Front Nitritit Light Casuatiie$.
A despatch from the British ArinyClerman liimperor s men Jay silent un-
til Prance, says: -Complete success der the brilliant sunshine whicl>n could
crowned . the splendid surprise attack bring them no', cheer
au tient and r <tssaulto e forces about
nlltde by the Australians at dltwir on I jt idol the
i half to complete their
'i'hursdty against the Germans be- : work, and at the end of that time tl\eY
lween\tillers-Bretonneux and the had, with exceedingly light casualties,
Somme, lwrested from the enemy a strip of
The enemy was taken entirely un- , territory fora- miles wide and averag-
aw re -s and the big -framed fighters ing a nihe and ahalf deep. By this
from .Australia stormed. their Wayoperation they eliminated a salient in
through the bewildered greycoatsi the British line and gained 'valuable
'with little opposition --a veritable high ground
human tornado which left a wake of e
ThAustralians went over the top
death behind it. • !behind' a large number,of tanks, t hieh
Itanlel village was rushed and Laken were to pilot Idle way: Two minutes
in short order, Vaire and Hamel before that hour the British artillery
\roods, with their nests of crackling ;all along the sector dropped -a tremen-
n.lachine guns, were passed through,' clans barrage on the Germain defences „.
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Australians Ls 1'1_C'1iCc111•-li•a'll'le ,.0 1.0031e1 'anlrl 1 '
e doing from - urs of all oaliUr •a, 1- al sights ou
6a r were g es. This was l s 1
a Practice charge for .their comman- i the first warning the enemy had of I'ra,ree by the Supply Corks of the U.S. airily,
dor, arida line of enemy irenches east''impending -trouble, Nat a word con-
of these -strcn holds was c I 'S
K lv .leaned.. dint corning; th,o attack had ponetraled Lo'BR11.stt1N S i OOD •
and annexed.bth'erEven a
the sole: E1cn the great un: The
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Isrutsn cages this afternoon, n-liuie out tion without the enemy being aware A. despatch :from London says:- ..
l Y tijtlen the strawberrles dry in Ili
on the battlefield great numbers of lite - of their presence. Viscount Rhondda (David Alfred •
Phonies), the British Food Controller, ldngest grass,
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died on` Wednesday mor ing at' 9 When black-eyed Susans are all
, R , ' a , ,.._ _.-...._ o . E 1 hosts fireweed th
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he, plains of • oth the U.S and path d Canada, are being used
About • ::. , : : : - t grainfield
- a ,
t 1,500 prisoners were in the couth tanks had been got into pose- When the grainfield lies, like a lake of e a,
e BETWEEN' ONTARIO AND ,BRI-
BRI-
TISH COLUMi-BIA`.
ablaze,
Since the recent o,nerations for dis-
When of: the. 'ireweeflush
consequent to a clearing,
. L'' VESSELS JULY 4 pension of the fluicl 1`henyou may know that the time 1
i severe, attack of pleurisy, Lord y
- • Rhondda weakened gradually. There nes g
were few rallies and the bulletins The height of summer, the fierea
Airmen Drop Blazing The despatch from New I'm lc save.• blue days.
< 2g Oil on X f 1 b d' 1 "
Uniton
e Items From Provinces Where Ninny
s Ontario Boys and Girls Are
Living.
Winnipeg's V.0:'hero, Capt. Christo-
$tier O':K'elly bas returned to Prance.
ed States launched 1 S IYS rs, z om= - tis bedside sid e In the past : few days
Ausi'riala S.Cidjies. daya teahad held out` little hope for bis re. When the ni •ht breathes dee i- like a
greater tonnage' in ships than I, Lieut. ID. .II. `Cox, a well -renown, Win-
co •er .
A. despatch from Italian :Army she has lost during .the Whole pro- y worn-out sleeper, • ripe rico was recently killed in ac-
F1eaclquarters says: - The lghtiiig grecs of the'Curopean war; Secretary. When. shadows of great white .clouds i g,
V' t Rhondda 1
put En 1 1During the month of May there were
reaches of the Piave is as severe as dress at the Fourth of July c lebr•atlon p g a ld. and most of the United' A sharper .foil for,the glaring sun,
that is in progress alongthe lower.dtf the Navy Daniels' said in an ail iscoun fond a was the man who fall deeper,
was that of last week in this region;I of the .Tamman:y Society, More than Kingdom of Great Britain on rations When out of the hush a bird sings
' 1400,060 000 dead-wei hand won the gratitude, even of the rarer
where Mud, sand and water are every- i dead-weight tons, he said, are Y>
!biere under foot andclumps ' going into the water from American people whose ;feed supply he regulat- When winds blow fitf.ullyi brooks run
turps of tall
growing. grasses are frequent. To add; shipyards as a, part q; the ludepen-
to the difficulties, rain and wind 1 dence lay celebration,' while the total1
storms occasionally sweep over the: American tonnage desli•oyed by sub-
area. : Curarines is estimated at 352,223 tons,
41 'births in`Moose Tow and six deaths,
Winnipeg girls donned. overalls and
handled freight during the recent C.
ed. Before he achieved the task it sparely, P.R. strike.
was generally regarded as all but im- You may know that the youth of Nursing Sister Ion Wishart, Winni-
g o Wishart, A nni-
possible. the year is done. peg, is. among the nurses wounded at
At four points the Italians attacked including 67,815 tons sunt: before the
.the Austrian position in this region, United States entered the war. GOOD HARVEST IN
along a frontage of eight miles. Int "We have launched to -day," Mr. l MANITOBA EXPECTED
this comparatively small stretch no Daniels continued, "more than the
SHIP PRODUCTION
Etap'les May 19th.
Girls' Institutes will be organized as
auxiliaries to the Women's Institutes
WAS II1GH IN JUNE
less than 12 temporary bridges thrown Germans sauk of :the ships of all A despatch fr•oni Winnipeg se s:- A desptch from London says: -The
p a. y British
arioss by the _Austrians were dlestro !nations in the last month for which! Prosperity ac''ainstanas at. NTanitoba's Admiralty announced that
ed by airplanes dropping small bar -1 v,,e have official figures. es. The recent • `cloo.r. A rich and plentiful harvest is:during the month of -June 134,159
i•els of b'urnin '• oil u on thein_ The' enemy submarine activities off"our 'forecast ih the first official'cro ' re- gross tons ,of merchant shipping was
Italian infantry are frequently seen a i coast resulted in the less of 25,411 port issued by the :Manitoba Ag•ricul completed in the United Kingdom
short distance away, calmly waiting! gross• tons of American shipping, tut'al Department. Yards and entered for service:
while the br.id •es are g1 During the same tune 1:30 000 dead. The report i !
g attacked fz•om d ' ,. r p t nc,icates clearly that the•„_
the air,the trcro "r.• !Weight tons of shipping,were b lilt cropsthe record of British shipyards fo
ps then being th • . n !built. i, about six days ahead of its,
' normal schedule in 70' Per cent•. cif the 'Tune fell below that of May, when a
against the. remaining Austrians,. 1 t p 9 , gross About the most violent resistance; SULTAN OF TURKEY places reporting, Of the remainder, total of 197,. r•1 tons was en-
displayed
n-
dis rla ed b - anya , !• tered for service. That was the
1 Y y of the. enemy troops HAS PASSED AWAY about 20 per cent. claim normal condi- hi 'hest fi •ur for anymonth during
is that of the Pcsnia,ils and Iter egov- tions prevalent, anti the.other 10 per g c e -g
ina.ns o11 this front, who cent. sho1i a • tendency to back rard- the last year, .I -n April -the shipping
aro stilt A despatch fromAmsterdam Says , coin rleted totalled 111 533 and in
wearing their picturesque turlians. As. -Mel-lammed V., Sultan of Turkey, Fess. i„ •.;,1 7 ,
the Italians advance they are finding died at 7 o'clock on Wednesday night, i 11Iatch 1G1,U rd gross `tons.
the dead among these"already stripped says a Constantinople despatch receiv .7._..... .44-
l y their conlr•ades. There are other ed here by way of Vienna: I 1 Canada Presents- France
Austrians, however, who as soon as GERMANS FURTHER
With Fully' Equipped Hospital SQUEEZE BELGLIJM
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>:hey are talren prisoner and find Mohammed V., thirty-fifth soy-; Y,
themselves safe within the Italian ereign of Turkey indirect descent of A despatch from Paris says:- A des ash from Amsterdama
lines, c•ry,-"Down with Austria!" the House of Osman, founder of, the President Poinoare went to Joinville ie p says:
-The war contribution which Bel-
- ^ r T empire; came to the throne by a coup Pont, where. Sir Robert Borden, in the gavium has to pay to Germany, says Les
ROSS RIFLE FACTORY r d'etat on April 27, 1900, after llav- jlre;ence of Gen. Currie, commander N-uve l
• o .,1 ems, has been raised from 50, -
TO MAKE REVOLVERS ing been held for thirty-three years a in -chief of the Canadian armies,, and 000,000
-- prisoner by his brother, Sultan Abdulprominent francs to quiva ent francs
A despatch from Quebec,: Que. says; 'II,st ver:11 Canadians, present-
, monthly. This is equivalent to 750
Y in the royal palace and gardens in ed him with a fully -equipped. Canadian. francs per head. The Germans
-The 'factory formerly occupied by Constantinople. hospital. The hospital contains r,20 c have
the Ross Rifle Company will be re -convoked the provincial councils to
,opened in September beds, which number will soon be in -discuss the method of payment
p ber bythe NorthP Y by the
FRENCH IN. .VIGOROUS THRUST creased to 1,040. Belgians.
American `Arms Company, Limited, ag.a s•
CAPTURE 1,000 PRISONERS•._.•___•_______..__: •_., •
very large order for the manufacture,
of revolvers for the United States I
A. despatch from London says: -
army having been' received by the.ilew The French have struck savagely
company, which. has just obtained a;against the German lines ori. T'hurs-'
charter from the Dominion Govern -,day this time cutting through the:
inent and is capitalized at 8.2,000,000, enemy>ranks near the toivilgof Au -
the head office to be in Quebee, : It is . treches, south of Moulins -oils -Tout -
a -purely Canadian'compatl;}-, the of"; vent, where on Tuesday night they
fi.cers being: President, .P. A. Russell, won a local succuss and ca aired tis-
'Toronto; Vice -President, H. D. Scully, •? p p : .. _-. ...._ . ...:..._.._ ............_.:. .
'oilers. Here the Germans lost 1,066
Toronto, srid Thomas Craig, former prisoners. Clic French improved
general superintendent of the Ross' their positions by gaining rather high
Rifle Company, has been appointed ,grntind,' rhich can be readily defend
p,•eneral manager, and is also on the ed when the'Germans launch their
board of directors.' The contract iS expected offensive.
to be completed by December 31 1919 ,
areas of the ort
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`oroO•1-9 •Iui7y t * -• axxti011
No, 1 NaLgtlexn, 12 'a3%1
wh,e,lt, ;152N:196%8'1 tXz' at;re 1.':gztNo*
harit, irleiudltlt; ;orae tflx
I'✓lanitotza oat No,, C SG%._, ;
No. $ C:i { 831/4.4'; e extra NO, ;1 feed,.:
,83r4c; No t feed, 0 c, In store 1 'of
VVilliant:
Ontario %vhaat----No.. 2 Wint'o , per •
cat lot, 82,22; bass ixi ;store Montreal.
i'eae-- Torainal,
Batley IYIalting, $124 to 31,26,
according to freights dutside,
Bnekwheat-x$1..80, acecrdirg to.
fre 'i?htS outside.
11'iunitob<t 3iaur - War quality,'
$LO 9i; yew bogy, 'Toronto and" Mon
tical frexl'htte, `prompt shipment.
Anlerlcazl corn -No. 3 ye:low, kibl
dried, nom nal; No. 4 yellow, kiln
dried, nominal.
Ontario oats --No. ? wh t+,:, 80 to
81e; No. 3 white, 'Ti) to SOc, a.•cord-'
ing to freights outside.
Rye -No. 2,; $1.80, according to
freights outside.
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O axio flour - "(ru quality.
$10,05, in bags, Toronto anti Mont-
real; ltrtinpt slipment,
Milifeod----Car lots -;.1.M livered Mon-
treal freight,, bags included; Bran,.
per ton, $35 00; shorts, per ton, 840 00
Hay -No. 1. uer ton, $1.3.00 t
1,4'
c.
$14.00; rriixed, $11.00 to $12.00, tracks
Toronto.
Strain -Car lots, per Lon, 38.00 to
$8.50, track Toronto.
Country Produce -I holesale
Eggs; new -laid, 45 to 46c; selected,
new laid , 47 to 48c; cartons , 48 to
490.
Butter -Creamery, solids,. 45e; do.
fresh made,.46 to 47c; choice dairy
prints,` 41 to 42c; ordinary dairy
prints, 38 to 40c; bakers', 36 to 38e
oleomargarine (best grade), 32 to
34c.
t Cheese -New, large 22'ra to 24c;
twins, 23% to 24'4,c spring made
large, 25x/3 to 26c; twins, 26 to 26.1 c
• Beans- ana.dian, prime, bushel
$7.50 to $8,00. Foreign, hand-picked,
bushel, $6.75 to $7.00.
i Comb IToney-Choice, 16 oz.,- $3.,50
per dozen; 12 oz., $3 per dozen; sec-
onds am dark comb, $2 50 to 82.75.
Maple syrup -imperial gallons,
82.25;' 5 -gallon tins, $2.10 poi• g lion.
ga •
Maple sugar, per pound, 24 to doe.
Provisions-Wiiolestale
in Western Canada.
Winnipeg Great War Veterans are
making an effort to secure civic posi-
tions for returned men. -
N. W. Warren has-been elected head
of the iVlanufacture.rs Association in
the western provinces.
The Manitoba. Government has ten-
. decided that Winnipeg shall
1 be a city of automatic telephones.
Lieut. H. A. Harper, son of Prof. H.
R. Harper, ' of Western Canada Col
and. it is said that the maximum num-
ber of employes will reach 3,000. THOUSANDS ARE READY
TO WORK ON F ARi1.IS
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
Highly satisfactory results in connec-
tion with the registration of the man
and woman -power of Canada have
been obtained, according to Senator G.
D. Robertson, who, on Thursday, is-
sued his first statement of returns:
from various constituencies in which
the work has been completed. Al-
ready the Registration Board has
secured the names of thousands of
people willing to give assistance in
agricultural work particularly dur-
ing harvest time.,
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FOURTEEN HUN ACES: KILLED
Adespatcli. from British 'Headquar-
ters in .France says: -No fewer than.
fourteen leading German airmen, who
were credited with a total of 363 vic-
tories, have been killed: or`captured
recently, including Baron .,Richtitofen,
for whom, 80 victories were claimed;
Bt., Max Mueller, 34 victories; :''Lt
Von .Buelow, 28 victories.
German bombingorganizations
g tion s have
also lost heavily. The killed and cap-
tured include Capt. Kleine, Commander
of the so-called "England" sgtrtdron, -.
The Sand -shoes, Used by Our Soldiers in Palestine When
I Sand of the Desert.
'rhosoldier in the pictur • took care that the should be a ro-
tel e footgearpro-
minent feature in the landscape. These sand -shoes are an excellent inven-
tion, and shod with them the men cau travel without difficulty over the, de-
sert l" and treacherous surf` is a:
cert sand. Without diem the ilna,custoll(ld a t clots ace pt
to prove full of pitfalls: t
lege, has been killed in action.
Alien enemies in western Canada
are not to be allowed to _buy' school
lands at.the: coming sale, of school i
property.
Charles .Tohnstone, formerly secre `
tar'y of the Moose Jaw Agricultural •
Society, died sof wounds in France
May 25.
Capt. A. V. Cashman, Calgary, is
home on leave, and reports a scarcity
of military dentists in France and Eng-
land.
Smoked meats -Rolls, 32 to 33c;
hams, medium,; 37 to 38c; heavy, 30
to 31c; cooked hams, 50 to 51c; backs,
plain, 44 to 45c; backs, boneless, 48 to
49e. Breakfast bacon, 40 to 41c.
Cottage rolls, 35 to '36c. •
Dry Salted Mea ts-Long• clears; in
tons, 30c; in cases„ 301/2e;• clear bel-
lies, 28 to 281/'1c; fat backs. 25c.
Lard -Pure, tierces, 30/ to 31c;
tubs, 30% to 3114c; pails, 31 to 31%e;
prints, 32 to.32½e. ; Shortening,
tierces, 26 to 2G1 e::tubs, '2G h to
26%c; pails, 26x to 27e; 1-1b. prints,
27rr3 to 28c.
Montreal Markets
Montreal, July 9 ---Oats, Canadian
western, No. 2, 961se; extra No. I
feed. 931c. Flour, new standard
grade, 810.95 to .$11:05. Rolled oats,
bags, 90 lbs, $5.10 to $5.15. Bran,
$35. Shorts, $40. Mot:illzt $67.: Hay,
'No. 2, per ton, car lots, 414.50 to
$15.
Winnipeg's Citizens' Committee of 1
One Hundred who did such splendid
service during the civic strike, will
not disband but will form a league to
watch civic events.
Rev. C. G. Stone, of Vegrevi.11e,
Alta„ has joined the Royal _lir Force.
.Alberta coal trines report a swamp-
ing of orders, and great difficulty in
getting efficient miners.
Enraged citizens of Vonda, Sask.,
it town northeast of Saskatoon, smear- I
Live Stock Markets:
Toronto, July 9 -Extra choice heavy
steers, $15.50 to $16.00; choice heavy.
steers, $14.50 to $14.75, butchers'.
cattle, choice. $14.50 to $15.00; do.,
good, $13.75 to '$14.00 do., medium,
$1'2.00 to $13.00; do., common, 810.00
to $1.1.00; butchers' bulls, choice,
$11..75 to $12.25; do., good hulls,'
$11.00 to $11.50; do., medium bulls,.
810.25 to $10.50; do., rough :bulls,`.
87.,50 to $8.50: butchers' cows, choice,
812.00 to $12.50; do., good, $7.1.00 to
$11.50; do., rnedinm, 88.50 to $t1 25;
o., common. $7.00 to $8.50; stockers,
ed yellow paint over the store of,
$11.50; canners and cutter, 25, i'0 to
36.50; milkers, good to choice, $90.00
scribe to the military Y,M.C.A. Fund.
The C.N.R. will: expend the largest
part of the proposed $2,000,000 en.
$8.00 to $11,.00; feeders, $11.00 to
Joseph Fournier, hardware merchant,
because Fournier hadrefused to sub -
to $140.00; do., cr'm. and. reed . 355.00,
o $80.00: springers, $90.00 to
$140.00; light ewes. 313:00 to 311' 00-
readings, $15.50 to $17.00: soring
ambs, 20 to 22c; calves, 313.00 to
17.00; hogs, fed and watered, $18.25;
do. weighed off cars, $1.8.50.
Montreal, •Tulv9-Choice steers,
11.00 to $12.50; inferior, $10.00;
utchers' hulls, $10.00: butcher;'
ows, $7.50 to .$10.00; sheep. 89,00
o 212.00: lambs, $1.8.00 to $19.00;
elves, milk -fed, 39.00 " to 315.00;'
elect hog., 319.00 to $19.25; sows,
16.00 to.$16.25.
new railway extensions throughout1
Alberta and Saskatchewan. 8
Winnipeg fuel consumers are. ad-
vised to lay in an average of 55,000
tons a month during June, July and
August in order not to crowd delivery.. 'b
c
The City Council have asked the t
Dominion Government to take iznnle- c
diate actionthatwill permit Winnipeg s
citizens fo obtain Bard coal for next $
winter.
A 'tablet to the memory of Lieut,
Mowbray Perdue, youngest sou of $
Chief justice and Mrs. W. E. Perdue,
was unveiled, in Holy trinity Church,
Negotiating the Winnipeg.
Crop conditions in Saskatchewan are H
more favorable than in Manitoba , ' s
3,00'0,000 SUBSIDY
TO FLAX -GROWERS
A despatch from London says: -The
ouse of Commons has passed the
econd reading of the bill p'ovicling
or a Government' -subsidy of £600 00
,Y , Q
o promote; flax growing in Ireland, to
eplace the lost Belgian and Russian.
a „,,,,,
reps and: to provide material for the
army, navy and air forces.
Approximately 3,100 men' 10 and 20
years old registered in Manitoba, 1
.Flan. W E, Perdue has been ofticialr,
y appointed Chief Just-ee of Mani- •i
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